Fire at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Autumn extreme fire weather around Cape Town in South Africa has become 90% more likely in a warmer world.
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If the Earth were ever subsumed into a single cityscape, it would collapse under the weight of its own ecological footprint.
Government investments in infrastructure in Nigeria will remain insufficient as urban populations grow.
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Cities are increasingly unsafe and unhealthy. Family planning can help curb unsustainable urbanisation.
Malaria transmission in Kenya has been largely limited to the coast and western parts of the country.
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This mosquito spreads very fast to new areas and can adapt to various climatic conditions, unlike the non-invasive malaria vectors.
A clando taxi stand in downtown Rufisque, Dakar metropolitan area.
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Urban expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa and the need for daily mobility
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Planting trees in urban areas can reduce the impacts of urban heat islands.
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In 2015, 6,700 premature deaths were caused by urban heat – this can be reduced by a third by planting more trees.
Kampala is one of the three Eastern African cities that transformed with little historical precedence.
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East Africa is one of the fastest urbanising regions in the world, but it’s still in the early phases. There’s a big opportunity to get the region’s cities right.
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Successive Japanese administrations have tried – and largely failed – to reduce urban overcrowding for 70 years.
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Quite how to gauge the size of a city – or where one ends and the next begins – is getting harder to determine. The 21st century belongs to the limitless city.
Shenzhen, in China’s southern Guangdong province. A village until 1980, it’s a rare new city success story.
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New towns have had a better track record in places of rapid economic and population growth, such as east Asian countries.
Mombasa port serves Kenya and eight other countries in the region.
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Harnessing the combined effect of trade and urbanisation could significantly boost the economies of African countries.
A child in the Mathare informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Cities have the authority and duty to consider children’s rights as part of climate change responses.
A river flows through Nairobi’s Kibera slum. Communities should be engaged in environmental management to reduce mosquito breeding sites.
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The country’s urban centres where unvaccinated people live in crowed settlements are key risk areas.
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Governing a city like Lagos, with deep-seated socioeconomic inequalities, is not a job for the fainthearted.
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Naturalistic thinking has long helped humanity grapple with complex urban predicaments. What role can it play today?
Trees provide bats with food, and are important parts of the animals’ landscapes.
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Cave-specific conservation and protection actions are essential to protect cave habitats for the continued survival of bats, and ultimately, the well-being of humans.
Residents contend with the flooding after a downpour in Accra, Ghana.
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The fast growth of the metropolis and the city’s political significance, to its large informal economy and the challenges residents face.
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The changing dynamic between Borneo’s pigs and Indigenous people is a powerful reminder of the fragility of the human-nature connection.
Jamestown, Accra. The city’s authorities have done nothing to develop green spaces in the city’s slums.
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Ghanaian city authorities are focused on addressing problems of poverty, education and health rather than managing green spaces in slums
Residents clean up the streets and local businesses after looting incidents in Alexandra, Johannesburg.
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Much of the commentary on the July riots, which cost over 300 lives and billions of rands in damage to the economy, has neglected the long history of violent protests in the country.