Urbanization News
June 3, 2025
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June 2, 2025 Flooding in coastal communities is happening far more often than previously thought, according to a new study. The study also found major flaws with the widely used approach of using marine water level data to capture instances of ...
May 29, 2025 A new study shows that wildlife underpass tunnels dramatically reduce deaths of frog, salamanders, and other amphibians migrating across ...
May 28, 2025 A study finds small-scale tree cover in Costa Rica boosts biodiversity while limiting dangerous mosquito ...
May 28, 2025 Involving communities in nature-based solutions to tackle urban climate and environmental challenges leads to innovation and multiple benefits, a study ...
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May 21, 2025 Researchers took a fresh approach to urban research by using artificial intelligence to explore the emotional side of city life. Their goal was to better understand the link between a city's physical ...
May 8, 2025 How relatedness-to-nature is linked to well-being is determined by district-level socioeconomic status. A new analysis is based on survey results from two major Japanese metropolitan ...
May 7, 2025 In a sweeping new study of more than 13,000 urban areas worldwide, researchers have mapped air pollution levels and carbon dioxide emissions, ...
Apr. 30, 2025 Trees, parks, wetlands and green roofs can no longer be seen as a 'nice-to-have' aesthetic enhancement but a vital component for creating ...
Apr. 14, 2025 Researchers use mathematical modeling to probe whether cohesive communities are more resilient to extreme events, finding that emotional intensity ...
Apr. 8, 2025 While the daily ebb and flow of people across a city might seem chaotic, new research reveals underlying universal patterns. A study unveils ...
Apr. 8, 2025 A researcher spent a year living in a jjokbang-chon, an extremely impoverished neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea. While there, he calculated ...
Mar. 26, 2025 Los Angeles has some of the strictest tree planting rules in the nation. These policies limit tree growth, worsen shade disparities and don't improve safety, researchers found. When researchers ...
Mar. 18, 2025 Researchers used community input to design Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) air-quality model experiments. Community asked for ACT policy simulations that convert 48% of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles ...
Mar. 13, 2025 Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to climate change, new research ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 9, 2025 Over the last two decades, ischemic stroke mortality rates in the U.S. have grown, with almost 3 in 10 deaths occurring at home, and increases particularly among racial minorities and rural ...
Mar. 13, 2025 When major storms hit Houston last spring and summer, losing power was a nightmare for residents, but for many, the financial fallout was just as devastating. A new report finds that more than half ...
Mar. 12, 2025 Large, undisturbed forests are better for harboring biodiversity than fragmented landscapes, according to recent research. Ecologists agree that habitat loss and the fragmentation of forests reduces ...
Mar. 6, 2025 Urban highways promise to get people to their destinations faster -- and bring them together. But at the same time, they reduce social connections between people within the city, especially at ...
Feb. 24, 2025 From the perspective of complex systems, the study reveals the universality, specificity, and explanatory power of underlying rules governing urban system ...
Feb. 12, 2025 Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and limit global heating to 1.5 ...
Feb. 10, 2025 The recent LA fires drove home how dangerous wildfires can be when they encroach on urban areas. So-called 'wildland-urban interface' fires are on the rise. However, building codes and ...
Feb. 4, 2025 New, groundbreaking research shows how, at a local scale, agricultural research and development led to improved crop varieties that resulted in global benefits to the environment and food system ...
Jan. 27, 2025 develop a model that can help municipalities choose optimal locations as they expand their cycling lane networks in response to growing ...
Jan. 9, 2025 Tracking coyote movement in metropolitan areas shows the animals spend lots of time in natural settings, but a study suggests the human element of city life has a bigger impact than the environment ...
Jan. 6, 2025 When children have a place to play outside, programs aimed at reducing their screen time use are more ...
Jan. 6, 2025 A new study used acoustic sensors that detect the sound of gunfire to show how often children in one Chicago neighborhood are exposed to gunshots while walking to and from school. Results showed that ...
Dec. 23, 2024 Hospitals that have adopted the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) 'hospital-at-home' program, which serves as an alternative to admission to brick-and-mortar facilities, are ...
Dec. 19, 2024 More American cities -- even those seen as affluent -- are home to people living without running water as people are being 'squeezed' by unaffordable housing and the cost-of-living crisis, ...
Dec. 17, 2024 Economists looked at test scores and school attendance for Chicago-area kids before and after a bug infestation wiped out the city's ash trees. Education outcomes for low-income students went ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Climate and land use change have and will continue to alter streamflow regimes and water quality through the 21st century, with consequences for drinking water treatment costs, flood protection, and ...
Dec. 10, 2024 Normally, America's smokiest cities lie out west. But Canada's unusually intense 2023 wildfire season smothered American cities in smoke farther east than is usual, according to new ...
Dec. 10, 2024 AI predicts that most of the world will see temperatures rise to 3C much faster than previously ...
Dec. 3, 2024 A nationwide U.S. assessment of estimated cancer risk from airborne toxics shows that risk is concentrated in urban communities, those with lower incomes, and those with higher proportions of racial ...
Dec. 3, 2024 Nitrogen oxide emissions from soil in California's Salton Sea air basin are 10 times larger than state estimates, finds a new study of rural Imperial and Coachella ...
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- Efforts to Reduce Kids' Screen Time Weakened by Unequal Access to Green Space
- Acoustic Sensors Find Frequent Gunfire on School Walking Routes
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- These Are Now the Smokiest Cities in America
- AI Predicts That Most of the World Will See Temperatures Rise to 3°C Much Faster Than Previously Expected
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- Regional, Racial, and Economic Disparities in Cancer Risk from Air Pollution Exposure Persist, but Improving, New Research Suggests
- Overlooked Emissions in California's Salton Sea Air Basin
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- Smarter City Planning: Researchers Use Brain Activity to Predict Visits to Urban Areas
- Climate-Driven Hazards Increases Risk for Millions of Coastal Residents, Study Finds
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- Revitalizing Neighborhoods in the Wake of Aging Populations
- Populations Overheat as Major Cities Fail Canopy Goals
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- Soil Sampling in Houston's Greater Fifth Ward Reveals Toxic Levels of Lead in Yards, Play Areas
- GPS System for Microorganisms Could Revolutionize Police Work
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- Sewage Surveillance Proves Powerful in Combating Antimicrobial Resistance
- Locally Optimized Urban Form Reduces Carbon Dioxide Emissions
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- New Temperatures in Two Thirds of Key Tropical Forest
- Climate Change Impacts Internal Migration Worldwide
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- Where Flood Policy Helps Most -- And Where It Could Do More
- Honey, I Shrunk the City: What Should Declining Japanese Cities Do?
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- New Tool to Analyze Embodied Carbon in More Than 1 Million Buildings in Chicago
- Providing Blooms All Season Long May Be the Key to Attracting Pollinators, No Matter What Landscape Your Garden Is Near
- Traditional Infrastructure Design Often Makes Extreme Flooding Events Worse
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- Hydrometeorology and Location Affect Hospitalizations for Waterborne Infectious Diseases in the US
- Could Manure and Compost Act Like Probiotics, Reducing Antibiotic Resistance in Urban Soils?
- Nighttime Light Data Shows Inequities in Restoring Power After Hurricane Michael
- Policing May Play a Role in Youth Mental Health Crises
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- An Overlooked Side-Effect of the Housing Crisis May Be Putting Californians at Increased Risk from Climate Disasters
- Tradition Meets Transformation for Maasai Women
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- Introducing Co-Cultures: When Co-Habiting Animal Species Share Culture
- Researchers Explore the Role of Children in Community Participatory Planning Process
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- Researchers Use 3D Visualization to Predict, Prevent Hurricane Damage
- Upstream and Downstream: River Study Highlights Cross-Country Inequities
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- Traffic Speeds Decrease When Bike Lane Is Present
- Researchers Call for Return of Sumas Lake Following Devastating 2021 Floods
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- Slugs and Snails Love the City, Unlike Other Animals
- Wild Megalopolis: Study Shows Unexpected Pockets of Biodiversity Pepper Los Angeles
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- Conservation of Nature's Strongholds Needed to Halt Biodiversity Loss
- Green Infrastructure Plans Need to Consider Historical Racial Inequalities
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- Study Tallies Heatwave Deaths Over Recent Decades
- New Transit Station in Japan Significantly Reduced Cumulative Health Expenditures