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 ...
Tag: nature-based solutions
EU Policies Aligned to Restore Landscape Sponge Function, New Brief Urges
A joint policy brief from three EU-funded projects recommends five priority actions to embed catchment-scale sponge restoration across EU water, ...
What Really Helps Africa Adapt to Climate Shocks? A sweeping review finds governance beats gadgets
A scoping review of 35 studies finds that African climate adaptation succeeds most often when technology is embedded in hybrid ...
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 ...
Green Spaces May Hold the Key to Circular Cities in the Global South
A new review argues that urban green infrastructure, from community gardens to million-tree campaigns, should be treated as the spatial ...
India’s Zoos Emerge as Unexpected Powerhouses in the Global Fight to Save Biodiversity
A new analysis of 23 Indian zoos shows that conservation breeding programs and mandated green spaces significantly boost threatened species ...
Wetlands That Pay for Themselves: Spanish Study Puts a Price Tag on Nature-Based Water Reuse
A Spanish research team has combined expert multicriteria analysis with economic valuation to show that constructed wetlands upgraded with drinking ...
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 ...
Kabul’s Hidden Crisis: Four Out of Five City Zones Face Three or More Disasters at Once
A new geospatial study finds that about 80 percent of Kabul is exposed to three or more overlapping environmental hazards, ...
Grazing Increases Soil Carbon in Sub-Arctic Grasslands
A new study in Global Change Biology Communications reveals that sustained livestock grazing enhances soil organic carbon storage in sub-arctic ...
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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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