Desert City’s Green Spaces Quietly Soak Up 80 Percent of Its Rainfall
A new InVEST model assessment of Sharjah, UAE shows that vegetated and agricultural lands retain about 80 percent of the ...
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Teaching Cities to Work With Nature: How Living Labs Are Rewriting Built Environment Education
A new bibliometric and systematic review of nearly a thousand publications finds that experiential, project-based, and place-based learning with nature-based ...
Tourism Is Quietly Stripping the Green Life from Iran’s Zayandeh Rud River
A new spatial analysis of Iran's Zayandeh Rud River shows that unplanned tourism development has driven land-use conversion, tree loss, ...
Mapping Ireland’s Peatlands: Scientists Chart a Green Infrastructure Network for Restoration
Researchers have mapped a Green Infrastructure network across northwest Mayo's peatlands, identifying core habitats, corridors, pinchpoints and barriers to guide ...
Forests calm the heart, birdsong soothes the nervous system, study finds
A randomized experiment with 95 college students shows that forest landscapes lower heart rate and birdsong raises heart rate variability ...
City Parks Flip From Winter Refuges to Summer Ovens for Birds, Three-Year Acoustic Study Finds
A three-year acoustic monitoring study in Shanghai reveals that urban green spaces act as warm winter refuges for birds but ...
Tiny Urban Voids Could Cool Historic Cities by Several Degrees, Study Finds
Researchers in Catania have developed a protocol that identifies tiny sealed urban voids and shows through microclimate simulation that converting ...
Climate Actions That Heal or Harm: Landmark Review Maps Health Co-Benefits Across North America
A scoping review of 183 studies finds that most North American research on climate action health co-benefits focuses on hypothetical ...
A Park on City Hall: How Istanbul’s Kadıköy Proposal Turns a Municipality Into Ecological Infrastructure
A design-research analysis of an Istanbul competition proposal shows how a vegetated roofscape and a transparent civic street could turn ...
Three Decades of Urban Ecosystem Service Research Mapped by Scientists
A new bibliometric analysis of nearly three decades of research reveals how urban ecosystem service assessment grew from a niche ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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