- 1. Feral Hogs Increase Their Urban And Suburban Sprawl ...
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- ... Extension wildlife specialist. But it’s their encroachment into increasingly urbanized areas that is becoming a burgeoning problem for landowners and municipalities. Texas’ feral hog population was 2.6 ...
- Created on 13 December 2019
- 2. Urban Sprawl Creates Food Deserts ...
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- Urban sprawl has led to the creation of food deserts in metropolitan areas across the United States, according to a published study by a researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington. Urban sprawl ...
- Created on 05 August 2019
- 3. Climate Change, Urbanization Drive Major Declines in L.A.’s Birds ...
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- Climate change isn’t the only threat facing California’s birds. Climate change isn’t the only threat facing California’s birds. Over the course of the 20th century, urban sprawl and agricultural development ...
- Created on 23 February 2023
- 4. Aggie Entomologists Show How Ant Colonies Adapt To Urbanization ...
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- A group of Texas A&M researchers has identified behavioral and physiological changes in ants disturbed by development and urban sprawl. Research by Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists in the Texas ...
- Created on 04 October 2022
- 5. Better Planning Can Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect ...
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- In his PhD thesis, EPFL researcher Martí Bosch proposes a method for spatially quantifying the impact of mitigation measures – planting green spaces and using different building materials – on the urban ...
- Created on 02 July 2021
- 6. Researchers Aim to Create Thriving Agricultural Systems in Urbanizing Landscapes ...
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- A project led by Penn State researchers is aimed at ensuring the economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture in the face of development pressures and other challenges of urbanization. Agricultural ...
- Created on 31 July 2020
- 7. Wildness in Urban Parks Important for Human Well-Being ...
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- As metropolises balloon with growth and sprawl widens the footprint of cities around the world, access to nature for people living in urban areas is becoming harder to find. If you’re lucky, a pocket ...
- Created on 02 March 2020
- 8. How Anti-Sprawl Policies May Be Harming Water Quality
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- Urban growth boundaries are created by governments in an effort to concentrate urban development — buildings, roads and the utilities that support them — within a defined area. Urban growth boundaries ...
- Created on 16 January 2020
- 9. An Increasingly Urbanized Latin America Turns to Electric Buses ...
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- In Medellín, Colombia, passengers cram aboard a battery-powered bus during the morning commute. Inside, the vehicle is a respite from the crush of cars, taxis, and motorcycles winding through traffic outside. ...
- Created on 09 September 2019
- 10. Habitat on the Edges: Making Room for Wildlife in an Urbanized World ...
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- ... more about making room for wildlife on the margins of our own urbanized existence. Conservation now often means modifying human landscapes to do double-duty as wildlife habitat — or, more accurately, ...
- Created on 03 January 2018
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