Harare’s Gridlock Is an Economic Squeeze, and a Planning Matrix May Untangle It
A new study applies a log-frame evaluation to Harare's congestion, arguing that the city's gridlock stems from an extreme concentration ...
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Nature, Yards and Playgrounds: Where Preschoolers Spend Less Time on Screens
A Finnish study of 673 preschool-aged children finds that frequent parent-child visits to yards and nature are linked to less ...
How Big Must a City Park Be to Cool Its Surroundings? Satellite Data Reveal a Surprising Ceiling
A satellite analysis of 456 green patches in Lucknow, India, shows that urban cooling rises with patch size up to ...
How Parks, Rivers and Green Streets Quietly Rewire Our Brains and Bodies
A new synthesis in Current Psychology unifies environmental psychology, public health and urban studies into a framework showing that the ...
AI Maps Exactly How Far Urban Lakes Cool City Streets
A machine learning study of 25 lakes in Da Nang, Vietnam, quantifies urban lake cooling with SHAP interpretability, finding the ...
Satellite images reveal Ghana’s Garden City is losing its green soul
A decade of satellite imagery and surveys shows Greater Kumasi lost nearly a third of its natural areas while most ...
Rethinking Urban Greenery: A New Playbook for Fighting Deadly Air Pollution in Crowded Cities
A systematic review of 139 studies reclassifies urban green infrastructure into ten functional types, offering high-density cities a mechanism-based playbook ...
Noise Is Not Just Annoying: Landmark Review Reveals Its Heavy Socioeconomic Toll
A systematic review of 58 studies finds that environmental noise—dominated by transportation sources—is tied to economic losses, psychological distress, sleep ...
AI-Powered 4D City Maps Predict Which Buildings Will Fall and What Materials They Will Release
Researchers in Japan used a Weibull survival model and four-dimensional GIS data to forecast building-level demolition probabilities and construction material ...
Simulations Reveal the Hidden Traffic Threat to Brazil’s Newest Innovation District
Microsimulation of Brazil's HIDS-UNICAMP innovation district shows through traffic, not the district itself, could overwhelm its planned roads, and that ...
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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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