Transforming cities for sustainability
Nov 19, 2014, 6:00 am By SciDevOur Spotlight explores how planning and tech can help transform urban areas facing unsustainable…Transforming cities for sustainability
Nov 19, 2014, 6:00 am By SciDev
Our Spotlight explores how planning and tech can help transform urban areas facing unsustainable…Urban sustainability starts by bridging divides
Nov 19, 2014, 5:10 am By SciDev
Integrating tech and planning, urban with rural and formal with informal development can help…Transforming cities for sustainability: Facts and Figures
Nov 19, 2014, 5:09 am By SciDev
Kate Hawley examines how urban areas are evolving to be sustainable — their challenges, trends and…Developing world gets city smart
Nov 19, 2014, 5:08 am By SciDev
Could developing countries skip straight to having ‘smart’ cities kitted out with tech? Gareth…Study counters case for climate change-violence link
Nov 19, 2014, 2:00 am By SciDev
Political, economic and geographical factors have more impact on conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa,…Monkey malaria on the rise among humans in Malaysia
Nov 18, 2014, 11:00 am By SciDev
Most malaria infections in Malaysian Borneo are from this severe, but previously rare, form of the…Japan and US promise billions to UN Green Climate Fund
Nov 17, 2014, 11:00 am By SciDevThe funding boost for the clean energy fund comes as a report shows how China can cut emissions but…Don’t forget ethics when mapping uncharted slums
Nov 17, 2014, 9:00 am By SciDevA new project hopes to track infection sources using this approach. But are ethics being given…Q&A: A call for local science to tackle air pollution
Nov 17, 2014, 5:00 am By SciDevIn this audio interview, pathologist Paulo Saldiva discusses the impact of air quality on health and…Q&A: Finding the ‘disappeared’ in Argentina and Mexico
Nov 17, 2014, 12:00 am By SciDev
Victor Penchaszadeh explains how forensic genetics can identify people killed by dictators and…Focus on Gender: Internet know-how and social change
Nov 14, 2014, 12:00 am By SciDevWeb safety training for Indian women would remove barriers to getting their voices heard online,…Floating homes to tackle overcrowding in the Maldives
Nov 13, 2014, 7:00 pm By SciDev
A tourism project comprising floating structures in the Maldives could show how to tackle a big…Q&A: The WHO’s Ebola response road map
Nov 13, 2014, 9:00 am By SciDevIn this audio interview, WHO representative Roberto Bertollini explains the organisation’s plan…China-US climate deal may drive developing world action
Nov 13, 2014, 9:00 am By SciDev
The joint deal to limit carbon emissions may improve prospects for the UN’s 2015 climate summit,…Push for biodiversity to have deeper role in SDGs
Nov 13, 2014, 1:00 am By SciDev
The current Sustainable Development Goals fail to recognise biodiversity’s impact on other issues,…Focus on Poverty: Climate science’s dual role
Nov 12, 2014, 6:00 am By SciDev
The IPCC’s latest report is a ‘final warning’ but also suggests ways forward for poor nations,…SWITCH tool aims to show best path to green energy
Nov 11, 2014, 12:00 pm By SciDev
The SWITCH program can point to the most-efficient technologies and methods of moving to a…Land management is ‘drowning in a sea of data’
Nov 10, 2014, 9:00 am By SciDev
Common methods and fewer indicators needed to effectively manage land, says head of the World…Vietnam eyes water-saving technology for its rice farms
Nov 7, 2014, 10:58 am By SciDev
Low-pollution technique that alternates wetting and drying of rice farms now used in Vietnam farms.
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