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Can Johannesburg reinvent itself as Africas first cycle-friendly megacity?

2016-05-24 11:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Minibus taxis are our biggest problem. They are dangerous. They just dont care, says Lovemore as he joins us on a dusty corner in Johannesburgs Diepsloot township. We are waiting for a group of cyclists to form near the minibus queue, which in the half-light of 6am already stretches around the block. Lovemore consults his smartphone. Around 100 cyclists living in this informal area of makeshift shacks and dirt roads on the edge of South Africas biggest city use WhatsApp to coordinate their journeys...

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Megacity: Beijing Quadrupled in Size in 10 Years

2015-08-17 13:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Beijing has seen explosive growth in recent years, with the physical size of the city quadrupling in just a decade, a new study reveals. Researchers used satellite data to see how much the Chinese capital has expanded, and calculated changes in the urban environment as well. Using NASA's QuikScat satellite, researchers at NASA and Stanford University looked at new roads and buildings that had been constructed in Beijing between 2000 and 2009. Then, they estimated how these urban developments impacted...

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Study warns on possible air pollution link to neuroinflammatory, Alzheimer and Parkinsons pathologies in megacity children

2014-09-12 14:30:43| Green Car Congress

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'We expect catastrophe' Manila, megacity on the climate frontline

2014-03-31 07:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Joshua Alvarez and his family fear for their lives when the monsoon rains come. Last August their two-bedroom flat in Manila was flooded when severe tropical storm Trami dumped 15 inches of rain (380mm) in a few hours and the local reservoir overflowed. They fled to a flyover with thousands of others as five large areas of the capital were inundated with muddy waters up to three metres deep and a state of calamity was declared in three Philippine provinces. In 2012, typhoon Haikui battered the megacity...

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TUM CREATE introduces tropical megacity e-taxi prototype at Tokyo; super-fast charging with twin charge ports

2013-11-26 12:30:29| Green Car Congress

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