INTERVIEW-Hurricane-ravaged Barbuda and Dominica must "build back better"
Getting urban planning right is vital to limit damage in future hurricanes, says UN top official
Mobile app uses real-time satellite data to strengthen forest and land rights
The app will provide weekly satellite deforestation data in 17 tropical countries including Brazil.
Powering homes, saving water: could evaporation be the next renewable energy?
Evaporation from U.S. lakes and reservoirs could generate almost 70 percent of the country's current power output, say scientists.
Post office workers grow vegetables, breed chickens on Paris rooftop "farm"
By 2020, the French capital will host more than 100 hectares (0.39 square mile) of rooftop gardens and planted walls
Botanic gardens are world's "best hope" for saving threatened plants
"If we do not conserve our plant diversity, humanity will struggle to solve the global challenges of food and fuel security, environmental degradation, and climate change"
Rising Heat: A warming planet braces for a sweltering future
Can we cool the risks of an invisible disaster?
With Irma - and a power failure - Miami gets a taste of deadly heat
In an increasingly steamy city that lives on air conditioning, losses of power can be deadly
Sponges, urban forests and air corridors: how nature can cool cities
Thirty pilot cities in China are trying to trap and hold more water to deal with problems from flooding and drought to extreme heat and pollution
New index to help investors gauge food diversity
Food systems must diversify to cope with climate change
Puerto Rico evacuates area near crumbling dam, asks for aid
Authorities are working on the assumption that the dam would collapse