A new global survey of city leaders underscores pressing challenges facing municipalities, including rising inequality, extreme heat and flood risks exacerbated by climate change, and a need to rebalance transportation systems ...
Economics & Business
Sep 27, 2022
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We like to perpetuate the idea of a divide in the attitudes of city dwellers and country people as part of debates on the environment, but it's simply not the reality, explains Thomas Bernauer. In fact, there is little evidence ...
Environment
Sep 21, 2022
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As Las Vegas and other Southwestern cities look for ways to reduce water use during a historic drought, the removal of grass lawns and other areas of "nonfunctional turf" has been recommended by the Southern Nevada Water ...
Environment
Sep 14, 2022
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Everyone knows that trees provide shade. What may be less obvious are their contributions to evaporative cooling. Think of tree roots drawing water from the ground and pumping it to their leaves, which effectively sweat H2O, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 2, 2022
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A hiker swept away in flash floods and torrential rain was still missing Monday as a weekend of storms forced hundreds to evacuate in the latest weather disasters to hit national parks in the United States.
Environment
Aug 23, 2022
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Laws intended to protect the environment in European cities must be more flexible in order to protect residents from the climate emergency, experts have warned.
Environment
Aug 15, 2022
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In a study published today in the journal Science of the Total Environment, led by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research ...
Ecology
Jul 25, 2022
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With searing temperatures and a string of record highs being smashed across western Europe, the current heatwave is all too apparent. Extreme heat warnings have been issued in several countries including France, Spain and ...
Planetary Sciences
Jul 20, 2022
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The Chesapeake Bay once produced tens of millions of bushels of oysters a year. Today, the oyster harvest is below one percent of these historic highs. What happened?
Ecology
Jul 12, 2022
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The Sahel-Sudano-Guinean region has been experiencing significant land use and land cover change in the last decades due to climatic and anthropic impacts. A better understanding of these changes is essential for sustainable ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 7, 2022
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