New Delhi to restrict use of vehicles to curb air pollution
New Delhi, IndiaReuters India’s Delhi city will restrict use of vehicles next week to curb rising pollution as air quality in the capital remained dangerously unsafe for a third consecutive day despite mitigation efforts. New Delhi ranks among the world’s top polluted cities every year ahead of the onset of winter, when calm winds and […]
Essay: 15-minute cities – how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory
Town planning academics ALEX NURSE, ALESSIA CALAFIORE and RICHARD J DUNNING – in an article first published on The Conversation, look at what 15-minutes cities are really about…
Artists paint flowers over Ukraine war wreckage, unsettling some locals
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Artists have painted brilliant sunflowers over heaps of burnt-out cars destroyed in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – upsetting some locals who wonder if it is too soon to beautify the wreckage of war. The group of painters from Ukraine and the United States say they plan to sell digital images of the work […]
Green and cheap? Doubts dog Lebanon’s first electric car
Beirut, LebanonThomson Reuters Foundation Lebanon is launching its first electric car – billed as cheap and green – but sceptics say subsidised power will count for little in a flat economy reliant on fossil fuels and struggling to attract investment into renewable energy. Designed by Lebanon’s EV Electra, the coupe-style ‘Rise’ is the country’s first […]
Armed with good data, engineers wage quiet battle for cleaner air
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation As countries try to slash air pollution and step up action on climate change, many are looking at a key culprit: tailpipes. India in 2016 put into effect its first fuel-economy standards for passenger cars and by 2021 is expected to have lowered planet-warming carbon emissions from new cars by 30 […]