Study links urbanization to poor ecological knowledge, less environmental action
A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators highlights a sharp contrast ...
Tag: Urbanization
Corals may look healthy, but coastal urbanization is destroying their delicate biorhythm
Coral reefs in the Gulf of Eilat (also known as the Gulf of Aqaba) have been proven particularly resistant to ...
RIT scientists part of massive study on clover showing urbanization drives adaptive evolution
Rochester Institute of Technology contributed to a massive study on a tiny roadside weed that shows urbanization is leading to ...
Urbanization not always bad for food and land use diversity
Widely accepted myths that urbanization negatively impacts food and land use biodiversity are incorrect, according to a team of researchers ...
Archaeology: Roman road discovered in the Venice lagoon
The discovery of a Roman road submerged in the Venice Lagoon is reported in Scientific Reports this week. The findings ...
City-funded housing repairs in low-income neighborhoods associated with drop in crime
Penn Medicine research suggests that investment in structurally damaged homes in low-income and minority neighborhoods are associated with reduced crime ...
DNA from 93-year-old butterfly confirms the first US case of human-led insect extinction
Credit: Field Museum The Xerces blue butterfly was last seen flapping its iridescent periwinkle wings in San Francisco in the ...
COVID-19 shutdowns reveal racial disparities in exposure to air pollution
Disenfranchised, minority neighborhoods still exposed to disproportionately high levels of health harming nitrogen dioxideCredit: GW WASHINGTON (July 20, 2021)--A new ...
Living near woodlands is good for children and young people’s mental health
Analysis of children and young people's proximity to woodlands has shown links with better cognitive development and a lower risk ...
NGA funds RIT researchers to explore the limits of spectral remote sensing imaging systems
Principal investigator Professor John Kerekes receives up to $1 million for fundamental research The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is funding a ...
New optimisation method for computational design of industrial applications
The study has been selected as an outstanding publication by the prestigious scientific journal Physics of FluidsCredit: University of Malaga ...
World’s first 3D-printed steel footbridge unveiled by robot in Amsterdam
The bridge, which is over four years in the making and is led by Dutch company MX3D, will be a ...
US-wide, non-white neighborhoods are hotter than white ones
Wealthier, whiter urban and small-town residents benefit more from cooling infrastructure and treesCredit: Suzanne Benz WASHINGTON--In cities and towns across ...
Shape-memory alloys might help airplanes land without a peep
S-shaped, shape-memory alloy filler in wings can reduce aircraft noise Having a home near a busy airport certainly has its ...
Every spot of green space counts
An international study of parks and gardens finds even the humble roadside verge plays an important role in the environment ...
Just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the world’s urban greenhouse gas emissions
New research published by the open access publisher Frontiers inventories greenhouse gas emissions of 167 globally distributed cities. The study ...
How air pollution changed during COVID-19 in Park City, Utah
As luck would have it, the air quality sensors that University of Utah researcher Daniel Mendoza and his colleagues installed ...
Tiny but mighty precipitates toughen a structural alloy
Credit: Michelle Lehman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University ...
Open-source software to help cities plant in pursuit of clean air
Software to help towns and cities use street-planting to reduce citizens' exposure to air pollution has been developed by researchers ...
Vertical greenery can act as a stress buffer, NTU Singapore study finds
Credit: NTU Singapore Vertical greenery 'planted' on the exterior of buildings may help to buffer people against stress, a Nanyang ...
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Burying short sections of power lines would drastically reduce hurricanes’ future impact on coastal residents
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Reinvigorating ‘lost cause’ exhausted T cells could improve cancer immunotherapy
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Climate change threatens food supply chains with cascading impacts on diet quality, income – new modelling shows
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Sharpest image ever of universe’s most massive known star
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New insights on how some individuals with obesity can lose weight – and keep it off
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Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: rebleeding rates and rebleeding predictors found