Cities

We should be able to access our daily needs - home, work, education, care, shopping, socialising - within a 15-minute walk or bike ride.

Creating regenerative urban systems is a key to solving the many interconnected crises of our times.

The prospect of overhauling our toxic transport system and making space for beautiful, fair and green streets resonates with millions of Londoners.

Can we initiate a global green recovery, embedding economics within sound ecological parameters?

How do we build more resilient ecosystems in the face of globalisation, pollution and inequality?

Urban birds need to be smart or fast-breeding, new study shows.

Emerging science sheds light on the relationship between virus spread and habitat loss.

New online tool compares the sustainability of each major UK city.

The sustainability of cities is inextricably linked to the sustainability of distant places. We need a new, integrated approach to planetary stewardship to address this challenge.

Exhibition showcases projects by leading architects in the field of flood resilient architecture.

Minister approves final plan for £21m for air quality improvements in Cardiff

Living near a busy road stunts children’s lung growth by up to 14 percent, and increases lung cancer risk by 10 percent.

'We have found yet another reason why air pollution should be addressed as a public health priority.'

Bristol is aiming to become the UK’s first carbon neutral city by 2030 and has launched an ambitious new project to make that happen.

Are trees the answer to climate emergency?

We can make London work for everyone, but we need to have a brave, grassroots vision.

Degrowth cooperative Cargonomia has created an edible, organic public garden in the heart of the city.

A new interactive guide reveals the most toxic cities in the UK - with Leeds topping the chart.

How does your city sound? Are we even aware of the noises that surround us on a daily basis? A new project is asking residents of Edinburgh, Sheffield and Brighton and Hove to take part in a survey of sound with the hope it'll help preserve areas of quiet and reduce noise pollution. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports

Ahead of this week's 29th meeting of the CITES Animals Committee, in Geneva, Switzerland, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals how the legal trade in lion bones from captive-bred lions serves only to exacerbate and drive the illegal trade in wild tiger parts

By shifting from globalisation to localisation, and creating smaller, self-sufficient communities within sustainable developments, cities could regain their equilibrium, writes Paul Jones. From where we stand today, the Organicity may sound like a Utopian dream. But if we're to avoid an urban apocalypse, we're going to need strong alternative visions, to change the way we imagine and plan for the cities of the future. Too good to be true? Or the way to human survival?

A crucial component of concrete, sand is vital to the global construction industry, writes Nick Meynen. China alone is importing a billion tonnes of sand a year, and its increasing scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more sand fetched from riverbeds, shorelines and sandbanks, roads and bridges are being undermined and beaches eroded. And the world's sand wars are only set to worsen.

Ten villages and surrounding farmland have already been wiped from the map for a 50 sq.km airport and surrounding 'aeropolis' or airport city in West Java, Indonesia, writes Rose Bridger. And while investors are offered an 'attractive incentives plan', villagers are subject to fierce state repression and brutality. Now only a single village remains standing, but residents continue to resist eviction and demand an end to the project.

The facts are simple: a new London runway means more planes, more noise, more pollution and more global warming, write David Howarth & Steven Griggs. The 'Heathrow 2.0' initiative's conflation of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable growth' and its avoidance of climate change reek of Trumpian 'alternative facts'.