Visitors take a guided tour of Roberto Burle Marx’s former home, which was elected today as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, in ...

SAO PAULO/BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu died in a plane crash late on Tuesday in the vast ...

Kongjian Yu, the landscape architect who dreamed up the "sponge city" concept, has died in a plane crash in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands while filming a documentary about his trailblazing work. Yu, 62, ...

Bats play a crucial role in tropical regions as pollinators, seed dispersers and agricultural pest controllers. But they are exposed to a wide range of threats, pollution among them. Two recent papers ...

An adventure aboard a floating lodge in early January immersed in the nature and culture of the Amazon River set the bar pretty high for University of Delaware students studying abroad that month in ...

Turenscape recently won two American Society of Landscape Architects awards, including a top prize for its “floating forest” in Jiangxi, which transformed a 126-acre degraded Yangtze floodplain into a ...

At the annual ABRAPP (Associação Brasileira das Entidades Fechadas de Previdência Complementar, the organization representing pension fund managers in Brazil) conference, sustainability was one of the ...

QUERENCIA, Brazil -- The paved highway petered out more than 100 miles back, but roadside billboards still sprout across a landscape of interminable green fields -- proclaiming the presence of ...

The Oberlander Prize–winning founder of celebrated Beijing practice Turenscape and originator of the revolutionary ‘sponge cities’ concept was 62.

Chinese landscape architect Yu Kongjian died in a plane crash late on Tuesday (Sept 23) in the vast Brazilian wetlands of Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazilian authorities said on Wednesday.Yu, 62, ...