Urbanization

Credit: Robert Lücking GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Scientists have found a new species of fleshy verdigris lichen, thanks to DNA analysis of museum specimens. Misidentified by its original collectors, the lichen is only known from 32…

Credit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, January 13, 2021 - The paper "Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for Environmental Sound Classification," has won the 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics…

The School of Architecture's grant-giving worldwide programme will make records freely available onlineCredit: Ronald G. Knapp, 2019. The School of Architecture at Oxford Brookes Univ ersity has started a £5 million grant-giving…

Credit: Jeremy Michalek When ridesourcing companies Uber and Lyft show up in urban areas, vehicle registrations per capita increase by 0.7% on average, increasing even more in car-dependent cities. Researchers reporting in the…

Drones, robots and autonomous systems can transform the natural world in and around cities for people and wildlife. International research, involving over 170 experts and led by the University of Leeds, assessed the opportunities and…

Credit: Graphic by Michael Vincent CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Cities only occupy about 3% of the Earth's total land surface, but they bear the burden of the human-perceived effects of global climate change, researchers said. Global climate models…

Credit: NUST MISIS Scientists from the NUST MISIS Mining Institute have proposed a new approach to urban space design, presenting the first in Russia informational 3D model of the Ulitsa Stroiteley metro station under construction in…

Credit: Longhuan WANG Human activities, such as urban planning, irrigation and agricultural fertilization, can affect terrestrial carbon, nitrogen and water cycle processes and aquatic ecosystems. Some human activities lead to…

Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) professors Kulbir Ghuman, Dongling Ma, and Sophie Van Neste will lead three new Canada research chairs in the fields of computational materials, nanocomposites, and urban climate…

Including construction, building sector now accounts for 38% of CO2 emissions; Direct building CO2 emissions need to halve by 2030 to get on track for net zero carbon building stock by 2050; Governments must prioritize low-carbon buildings…

Diverting urine away from municipal wastewater treatment plants and recycling the nutrient-rich liquid to make crop fertilizer would result in multiple environmental benefits when used at city scale, according to a new University of…

Sub-culture and supply fuel drug-related violence: studyCredit: Flinders University A community or sub-culture encouraging young men's exposure and obsession with guns - as well as ready access to firearms and drugs - can make gun…

EU project ReNature launches a collection of research articles in the RIO journal collating key outputs on the excellence of nature-based solutions for innovation, sustainable economic growth and human well-being in MaltaCredit: Pensoft …

In a new book, "Data Action," Associate Professor Sarah Williams issues a call for thinking ethically about data today.Credit: Photo: Adam Glanzman In the early decades of the 20th century, city officials in the U.S. began collecting…

Raman leaf-clip sensor would allow rapid diagnosis of nutrition deficiency in plants, enabling farmers to maximise crop yield in a sustainable wayCredit: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Portable device…

Credit: Anna Gunderson, LSU New research shows that the militarization of local law enforcement through weapons, armored vehicles, combat attire, office equipment and other items provided by the Department of Defense does not…

Study finds China's industrial-park policy is better for productivity when political connections are not a factor In recent decades China has built over 1,400 large industrial parks, a massive investment accounting for over 40 percent of…

Water disinfectant reacts with chromium in iron pipes to form hexavalent chromiumCredit: Water Chemistry and Technology Lab/UCR Rusted iron pipes can react with residual disinfectants in drinking water distribution systems to…

Tall mass-timber buildings are a safe and sustainable alternative for high-rise constructionCredit: UBC Okanagan With an increasing demand for a more sustainable alternative for high-rise construction, new research from UBC…

The team formulated a new cleaner additive mixture to convert natural gas into solid form, for easy transportation, in just 15 minutesCredit: National University of Singapore Natural gas is the cleanest of all fossil fuels, but…