Singapore real estate developer City Developments Limited (CDL) is expanding a mini reforestation project on its property, doubling a basketball court-sized “microforest” planted a year ago, with two other sites identified as part of an urban cooling initiative in the tropical city-state.Working with botanists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and supported by the National Parks Board (NParks), CDL planted a 260 metre-squared microforest on the grounds of the City Square Mall in Little India in ...

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We try to understand perception and work on them so that they start looking at nature in a way that people used to about 4 500 years ago because what we need are spaces like your beautiful university which is a good combination of tech and nature. So I'm going to talk about something which is extremely important in today's world when human beings have virtually dominated a planet. We are just one of 1.3% million species.Yet we think the perception is that we control this planet. However, most other species ...

Core Insights - Marks & Spencer (M&S) has partnered with sustainability innovation firm Pilio to launch the Affordable Clean Environment (ACE) program aimed at improving cotton farming practices in India, the second-largest cotton-producing country globally [1][2] Group 1: Program Objectives - The ACE program focuses on enhancing the livelihoods of cotton farmers by ensuring their involvement in decision-making and developing initiatives in partnership with them [2] - The initiative will provide financing for solar technology to reduce carbon emissions associated with cotton production [2] Group 2: Environmental and Agricultural Impact - ACE will work with farmers licensed under the Better Cotton Initiative, expanding support to include habitat creation, land restoration, and nature-positive approaches such as native plantings and nature corridors [3] - The program aims to address climate change and biodiversity loss while benefiting farming communities through access to clean energy [4] Group 3: M&S's Sustainability Commitment - Cotton constitutes over half of M&S's total fiber mix, with the company sourcing 100% of its cotton from Better Cotton Initiative, recycled, or organic sources since 2019 [4] - The ACE initiative aligns with M&S's sustainability strategy, which includes a net-zero goal across its value chain by 2040 [5] - M&S has also launched a storefront on eBay to promote circularity by allowing consumers to trade in and buy back pre-owned clothing, footwear, and accessories [5]

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The first time I saw seaggrass was 20 years ago in the Joho River estuary. When I stepped out of the boat and looked around, I felt like I had stepped into a magical world. Creatures everywhere, hiding, hunting, eating.To me, this was like a secret garden in the sea. Hello everyone. I'm Jillian Ouie.I'm a marine scientist at the University of Malaya. Back then, I was a master student studying plants in the sea. And I remember thinking why is it that I had never learned about seaggrass when I was in school.I ...

How big is the Amazon rainforest. >> The Amazon rainforest is something like 7 million miles squared. It's larger than the lower 48 states.>> Wow. >> It's it's absolutely tremendous. It's the largest contiguous rainforest on Earth.>> And are there parts of it that people have never been to. >> 100%. There are still parts of the Amazon rainforest that are unexplored. There's parts of the Amazon rainforest that no one's ever been to.And if you really want to blow your own mind, the canopy of the Amazon rainfo ...

The kind of work I do actually puts me in the confluence of data. >> Yeah. and data that cuts across several sectors from environment to agriculture to agroecology and of course remote sensing 20 years ago when we set out to champion and spearhead and out there say pilot the development of mobile maps in Nigeria.We didn't know that mobile maps will become a success. We didn't know that our lives will be so dependent on digital maps, especially when it comes to navigation around our cities. But because we be ...

Every future begins somewhere, and mine has a very strong, very strong connection to the environment, a very strong connection to the reality of the Amazon. Those who live in Pará will certainly know what I’m talking about when I talk about the rain. My parents, when they were young, when they started dating, unlike young people today who schedule dates via WhatsApp.That is, unless a personal meeting is replaced by a digital one. In their time, they would meet after the rain. This was the time for couples t ...

Tiger without voice is useless. So this is me. uh some years ago many people in Indonesia is call me tiger because I used to uh really in the front line taking a company confronting the company to stop deforestation in in my country.So I start green peace in Indonesia in 2005. Uh really focusing in Sumatra and Kalimantan fighting for deforestation similar I believe with here in in Brazil and uh in 2010 basically president of Indonesia is agreed to stopping deforestation at least temporary and following by m ...