Colombia's second-largest city, Medellín, was best known internationally for the local drug cartel that took its name, and left a legacy of high crime and violence. After a successful programme of urban regeneration, the city now faces two new threats to its environment caused by rapid economic growth; high pollution and rising temperatures. Medellín is using Nature Based Solutions to address this challenge, planting thousands of trees and shrubs along major roads and waterways to create a series of green corridors through the city which absorb emissions and cool the city’s hotspots.
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RE:TV Researching Biodiversity
The Millennium Seed Bank is an underground collection of over 2.4 billion seeds from around the world stored in sub-zero chambers in Wakehurst, Sussex. Part of Kew's Royal Botanic Gardens, it not only protects biodiversity by preserving threatened species, but also conducts cutting-edge scientifi...
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RE:TV Rewilding the Highlands
Located on a 100-acre site near Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, AECOM and the Lifescape Project have established a Natural Capital Laboratory. Working with the landowners, their local advisors and a team of researchers from the University of Cumbria, the site’s natural environment will be re...
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RE:TV Restoring Woodlands
Earth’s four billion hectares of forest, from Chocó rainforest in Ecuador and Colombia to the vast boreal forests of Canada and Russia, are the essential building blocks of a more sustainable world. Forests are our best mechanism for removing carbon pollution from the atmosphere, and they are a r...
