A major new scientific report offers a road map for how countries can limit global warming, but warns that the margin for error is vanishingly small.
Tag: Land Use Policies
Befriending Trees to Lower a City’s Temperature
A program in Melbourne, Australia, that tracks every public tree — and even gives each an email address — is seen as a way to manage climate change.
Build a New City or New Humans? A Utopia in India Fights Over Future.
Backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the new leadership of Auroville, an experimental commune, wants to create a model city. In the way stand trees, tree houses and a take-it-slow tradition.
Build a New City or New Humans? A Utopia in India Fights Over Future.
Backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the new leadership of Auroville, an experimental commune, wants to create a model city. In the way stand trees, tree houses and a take-it-slow tradition.
As Violence Rises in the West Bank, Settler Attacks Raise Alarm
Attacks by settlers and Palestinians have both reached a five-year high. But unlike Palestinian suspects, violent settlers are rarely prosecuted.
England Urges Farmers to Make Peace With Hikers
In a country where public access to parts of the countryside is written into law, the government gave landowners some advice. But farmers say they are not the problem.
In Afghanistan, ‘Who Has the Guns Gets the Land’
A decades-long fight over land has been reinvigorated as Taliban leaders look to reward their fighters with property, even if that means evicting others.
Will Indonesia Edge Its Way into the Space Race?
An Indigenous clan fears it will lose its place in the world as the government pursues a quest to open a spaceport and lure the billionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
Palestinian Families Reject Deal in Area That Helped Set Off Gaza Conflict
The threatened evictions of Palestinian residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem led to a war in Gaza last May.
Jeff Bezos Makes $2 Billion Environmental Pledge at COP26 Summit
The billionaire called the loss of Earth’s forests “a profound and urgent danger to us all.”