Mapping Istanbul’s Ecosystem Services Reveals the Hidden Cost of Urban Growth
A new study maps Istanbul's integrated ecosystem services potential across four land-use scenarios, showing how planning decisions could safeguard or ...
Tag: land use change
Bayesian Network Weighs Tourism Boom Against Vanishing Coastal Defences in Vietnam
A new Bayesian Belief Network model reveals that three decades of tourism-driven growth in Vietnam's Thu Bon Estuary have boosted ...
Deep learning maps shifting land around South African park where human-wildlife conflict is rising
A new deep learning study around Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park reveals that human-wildlife conflict hotspots concentrate along protected-area boundaries in landscapes undergoing ...
Seaweed Cannot Save Us: Land Ecosystems Are Functionally Saturating
A new review argues that Earth is undergoing functional saturation, where land ecosystems are losing ecological capacity faster than marine ...
Trees Quietly Return to Afghanistan’s Farmland While Forests Keep Vanishing
High-resolution satellite imagery reveals that tree cover on farmland in four districts of eastern Afghanistan expanded by about 36 percent ...
Oil Palm Conversion Turns Tropical Peat Soils from Nitrous Oxide Sinks into Emitters
New research in Sarawak, Malaysia, shows that converting pristine tropical peat swamp forest to oil palm plantations flips soils from ...
Satellites and Decision Trees Reveal How Climate Stress and Human Pressure Are Degrading a Nigerian Landscape
A 35-year satellite analysis of Wudil, Nigeria, links a 1.8 °C temperature rise, a 15 percent rainfall decline, and a ...
Manaus Is Making Its Own Storms: Amazon City Supercharges Extreme Rainfall
High-resolution simulations of 45 extreme rainfall events show that Manaus's urban surface intensifies Amazonian downpours by up to 16.8 percent ...
When the ground disappears: Wallonia’s soil loss is erasing hidden ecosystem services
A new study of Wallonia shows that land-take between 2007 and 2018 erased not just farmland but the capacity of ...
Climate and Land-Use Change Reshape Invasion Risk in Tanzania’s Lake Zone, Study Finds
A new study combining CMIP6 climate scenarios with land-use projections shows that climate-only models overestimate invasion risk for three major ...
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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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