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Future cities need a real-time, data-led decision-making platform to help create people-centric sustainable ecosystems.

The sudden drop in human activity during lockdown, gave scientists a unique opportunity to study the planet leading to new insights on climate change.

“It’s about creating green spaces, lowering the temperatures, giving quality of life and creating new reference points inside the city,” Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis said. The city had a population explosion in the decades after World War Two when migration from rural areas fuelled uncontrolled building. The concept of ‘antiparochi’ - owners exchanging land plots for apartments - became widespread. Detached houses were replaced by rows of blocks. With more people came more cars and ...

Top stories: WHO grants emergency use for Johnson & Johnson vaccine; Australia and Singapore discuss air travel bubble; Some countries suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine.

Companies should be thinking about how they can capitalize on the bounce-back and get ready for new regulatory developments.

Global private financial group sponsors back-to-school supplies and free meals for vulnerable children in India. San Francisco, California, USA., March 3, 2021 - /PressReleasePoint/ - Research shows that children from vulnerable communities worldwide have faced greater struggles in accessing education since the onset of Covid-19, with a total of 320 million learners in India being adversely affected. As schools in both the US and India begin to reopen their doors after many months of lockdown,...

A new protocol that allows service providers to choose which route their data takes could help reduce the internet's rising emissions of greenhouse gas.

India: Proposals against new attempts to privatise state-owned banks 11 March by Public sector banks account for more than two-thirds of the banking market in India. Currently, they are subjected to a systematic smear campaign launched by the reactionary Narendra Modi government, big media including the international press such as the Financial Times. [1] These canards are aimed at accelerating the privatisation drive underway since the 1990s. Critics of the public sector argue that...

Geneva shows the film China wants no one to see Persona non grata in his native China, Ai Weiwei now lives in Portugal and doesnt see a bright future for humanity. © Camera Press Ai Weiwei’s film Coronation is being shown at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva this weekend. This is a first for the documentary, which delves into the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan. This content was published on March 12, 2021 - 13:07 March 12...

Geneva shows the film China wants no one to see Persona non grata in his native China, Ai Weiwei now lives in Portugal and doesnt see a bright future for humanity. © Camera Press Ai Weiwei’s film Coronation is being shown at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva this weekend. This is a first for the documentary, which delves into the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan. This content was published on March 12, 2021 - 13:07 March 12...