As small air pockets between soil particles fill with water, the green roof acts like a sponge and soaks up as much rain as it can hold. This mitigates the problems of urban stormwater runoff in two ...

Bees, rare orchids and hoverflies are just some of the wildlife that can live on urban green roofs. Green roofs are designed to allow plants to grow on their surface. They need to be strong enough to ...

The Great Green Wall landscape restoration initiative in Africa’s Sahel region is also ... projects such as wetland restoration and urban greening. Interdisciplinary knowledge: Ecology ...

Urban green infrastructure, including man-made features such as vegetated roofs and walls, produce regulating, provisioning and immaterial ecosystem services such as improvement of microclimate, ...