Touted to be the country’s largest bus terminus, the Kilambakkam bus terminus spread on 88.52 acres of land was inaugurated by Chief Minister M K Stalin on December 30.
Chandigarh: After fast-tracking a climate-resilient park at the Botanical Garden in Sarangpur early this year, the work on the project has grinded to .
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The events marked the latest in a growing number of extreme weather events that are impacting urban parks and green spaces: from devastating wildfires to violent wind storms and mass flooding.
“Climate change is impacting virtually all local, state and national parks to varying degrees,” says Kristine Stratton, president and CEO of the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA). “Extremes run from too much water in too short a time to drought conditions … and associated worsening air and water quality.”
Yet Stratton says that few resources exist to help park and recreation professionals, who serve nearly every community and manage over 11 million acres of land across the United States, to analyze and identify the impact of these changes and to put in place or tweak mitigation and adaptation strategies.