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New Egyptian Capital gets Vertical Forest

The Egyptian desert is set to host the African continent's first vertical forest. Italian architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri has unveiled designs for three buildings covered with pollution-absorbing trees and plants in Egypt's New Administrative Capital, which is under construction in the desert east of Cairo. Boeri’s Milan-based practice, Stefano

Why should cities plant more trees?

rom Athens to Melbourne and Seoul to New York, big cities are increasingly turning to trees to help protect them from heatwaves and floods, and to boost people's physical and mental health, urban officials and environmental experts say.South Korea's capital Seoul recently planted more than 2,000 groves and gardens, and

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