Geography

Policy intervention needed to curb street-network sprawl, ensure sustainable development in new and expanding cities New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the…

Credit: Steve Darby, University of Southampton It's a resource used in global construction and mined from rivers and coasts across the world. Now new research, undertaken as part of a project led by University of Southampton, has shown…

Climate is an important factor in determining a plant species' growing zone. Some studies suggest that by the turn of the next century, climate change will have caused some species to spread several dozen kilometres north of their current…

A new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons suggests that prenatal exposure to flame retardants may increase the risk of reading problems. The study was published in the January 2020…

A new study uncovers a previously undocumented relationship between erosion and wind speedCredit: Alex Pullen and Paul Kapp On February 28, 2007, harsh winds blew 10 train cars off a track running near China's Hami basin, killing three…

Global satellite imagery shows transitions occur quickly after blocks of forest are cut in halfCredit: Tomasz Stepinski/UC University of Cincinnati geography researchers have identified a tipping point for deforestation…

Focus on ancient warm climate clues The Earth's Cenozoic Era began 66 million years ago with a bang - and with the last mass extinction event on Earth until now. The meteorite impact that marked the end of the Cretaceous Period and the…

Credit: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Terms_and_Conditions) For the first time, scientists have provided reliable regional estimates of land subsidence and water-level rise in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna…

This decline will have economic and environmental consequencesCredit: Courtesy Landsat imagery/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and U.S. Geological Survey More than half of Earth's rivers freeze over every year. These frozen rivers…

Credit: Liu Guorui Dense, hazy fog episodes characterized by relatively high humidity, low visibility and extremely high PM2.5 have been a headache to many megacities including those in Mainland China. Among pollutants that…