Wetlands, parks and botanical gardens the best ways to cool cities during heat waves, finds study
Wetlands, parks and even botanical gardens among the best ways to cool cities during heat waves—says biggest-ever global study
Wetlands, parks and even botanical gardens among the best ways to cool cities during heat waves—says biggest-ever global study
Environment
Feb 23, 2024
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Metropolitan areas with multiple city centers and dispersed green spaces mitigate extreme heat more effectively than those with one dominant city, an analysis by Cornell city planning scholars finds.
Environment
Feb 7, 2024
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Access to green space played an important part in protecting the mental well-being of students when the country was in its third national lockdown due to COVID-19.
Social Sciences
Feb 6, 2024
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The European Space Agency gave the green light to two missions on Thursday, one to detect ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves and another to probe the secrets of Earth's closest neighboring planet Venus.
Space Exploration
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Lettuce and other leafy green vegetables are part of a healthy, balanced diet—even for astronauts on a mission.
Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2024
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The Dark Energy Survey took an entire decade to produce a value for the cosmological constant—and it's smaller than you might think! There were other stories as well, including one about primeval black holes, and because ...
Pollinators are in decline globally and regionally. Building pollinator-friendly urban green spaces is an effective way to mitigate the negative impacts of urbanization on pollinator diversity and services.
Plants & Animals
Dec 27, 2023
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On a cold night in November, a small group gathered at the boathouse of the Brooklyn-based Gowanus Dredgers to listen to Elizabeth Case, a glaciologist and Ph.D. student at Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 7, 2023
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Noise is an unseen pollutant with very real health impacts. Like many other forms of pollution, because of systemic injustice, it affects some people more than others. It also affects wildlife.
Ecology
Nov 20, 2023
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The ARRAKIHS consortium, for which EPFL has the science lead, has just successfully passed the mission definition review of the project, a very important first milestone towards full completion of the mission preparation. ...
Astronomy
Nov 10, 2023
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