When One Disaster Triggers Another: How Cascading Climate Risks Are Breaking North American Cities
A new comparative review of cities in Canada, the United States, and Mexico finds that compound and cascading climate risks ...
Tag: Urban resilience
Reform Without Accountability: Why Inspected Buildings Still Fell in the 2023 Türkiye Earthquake
A new Nature Communications Comment argues that Türkiye's 2018 building inspection reform displaced rather than transferred accountability, helping explain why ...
Heatwave Vulnerability Varies Block by Block, Spanish City Study Finds
A University of the Basque Country methodology mapping building-level heatwave vulnerability in Bilbao, Madrid and Cáceres shows that socioeconomic conditions ...
Who Really Governs Climate Adaptation? Finance Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules
A new PLOS Climate essay argues that adaptation finance should be understood not as a neutral flow of capital but ...
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 ...
How Nigerian Media Erased Women’s Pandemic Heroics in Lagos Slums
A new analysis of Nigerian news coverage finds that women in Lagos slums were overwhelmingly portrayed as helpless victims during ...
China’s Climate-Resilient City Pilots Cut Urban Climate Risks, Machine Learning Study Finds
A Double Machine Learning analysis of 167 Chinese cities shows that the Climate-Resilient City Pilot program significantly reduced urban climate ...
Three Forces Decide Whether Green Stormwater Infrastructure Spreads Through a City
An agent-based model of Austin, Texas, shows that green stormwater infrastructure spreads only when visibility, feasibility and social capital align ...
Sponge Cities Cut Flood-Linked Dysentery Risk in China, Study Finds
A nationwide analysis of 4.2 million bacillary dysentery cases shows that China's sponge city initiative reduced flood-related disease risk by ...
Long-term resilience unifies cities and the built environment
Cities are often described as resilient when they can absorb a shock and return to normal. But a new study ...
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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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