Sunny Nagpaul

2 weeks ago | accuweather.com | Sunny Nagpaul

A skyscraper in Milan, Italy, called Bosco Verticale – or Vertical Forest – incorporates living plants into its design.

2 weeks ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Sunny Nagpaul

From shiny metallic blue amphitheaters that serve as floodwater storage pools, basketball courts, and skateboarding rinks to double-decker road tunnels that can fill with stormwater and still remain usable for travel, cities around the world feature creatively designed multipurpose facilities that can both protect communities from weather disasters and bring people together in public spaces with nature.

1 month ago | pbs.org | Sunny Nagpaul

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began three years ago this week, and the war has become the deadliest European conflict since World War II. At least 12,456 Ukrainian civilians were killed between February 2022 and December 2024 and more than 30,000 were injured, according to a United Nations report released in January. The war has also displaced millions of Ukrainians, with close to fleeing the country altogether, most of them women and children.

2 months ago | pbs.org | Sunny Nagpaul

Tibetan sociologist Gyal Lo remembers receiving a phone call in 2016 about what he describes as “a serious matter.” It was his brother, calling with concerns about his grandchildren, who “had become strangely different.”The children had “forgotten the Tibetan they knew and could no longer speak it properly,” says Gyal Lo, who lived in a Chinese province at the time, and now lives in exile in Canada.

2 months ago | fortune.com | Sunny Nagpaul

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