Multi-hazard resilient buildings and low-carbon solutions for a future-proof built environment

Simona Bianchi and Mauro Overend from Delft University of Technology explain why multi-disciplinary approaches are key to creating safer, eco-friendly, and resilient buildings that protect urban communities and ensure long-term sustainability The built environment is ill-prepared for more frequent and increasingly intense climate-related extremes, resulting in severe economic losses and public health risks. Recent scientific…

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Global conference on protecting migratory species kicks off in Brazil

The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CMS CoP15) to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals starts today (March 23) in Campo Grande, Brazil until the end of the week (29 March). Governments, scientists, conservationists, indigenous peoples and local communities will gather to address urgent conservation challenges facing…

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Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high | Oceans

Our home planet is struggling with a record energy imbalance, which is warming oceans to unprecedented levels, making weather more extreme and threatening health and food supplies, the World Meteorological Organization has warned. The United Nations body confirmed 2015 to 2025 were the hottest 11 years ever measured, but a still bleaker message was that…

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