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A green city able to fight air pollution and mitigate climate change is currently being built in China. The Liuzhou Forest City, designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti and commissioned by Liuzhou Municipality Urban Planning, will be made up of offices, houses, hotels, hospitals and schools covered by 40,000 trees and one million plants of more […]

Deforestation could be warming the climate even more than originally thought. That’s according to an international team of scientists led by the University of Leeds, who have studied the way gases emitted by trees and vegetation can affect the climate. These gases react with other atmospheric chemicals to form tiny particles, which reflect sunlight back […]

The natural environment could be used to capture carbon emissions equivalent to the volume released by the global burning of oil. That’s what a new peer-reviewed study led by scientists from The Nature Conservancy has found. It says capturing greenhouse gases in forests, grasslands and wetlands could cost-effectively deliver more than a third of the […]

London’s eight million trees are worth £6.1 billion to the capital’s economy. They also contribute £130 million in wider benefits, according to a survey launched by the Mayor of London and The Forestry Commission. The ‘iTree urban forest survey’ used more than 300 volunteers to count trees and analyse the services they provide from the carbon they store, […]

Jean makers Levi Strauss & Co are following in the footsteps of online fashion brand ASOS and British retailer M&S by making an anti-deforestation pledge. Yesterday the clothing firm vowed to iron out all material which began life as a tree from endangered woodlands. Its part of a scheme called Fashion Loved By Forest run by not-for-profit group […]