- 11. Urban Refuge: How Cities Can Help Rebuild Declining Bee Populations ...
- (News)
- ... inner city, are the bees that flit from flower to flower. In the 21st century, urban green spaces must be many things: verdant getaways, playgrounds, gathering spots. As cities continue to sprawl across ...
- Created on 09 November 2017
- 12. Los Angeles is Painting Its Streets to Reduce Urban Heat ...
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- ... feel far hotter than those in more rural areas — a phenomenon known as the “urban heat island effect.” Now, Los Angeles is experimenting with painting its pavement grey to help significantly lower temperatures. ...
- Created on 25 August 2017
- 13. Forecasting Climate’s Impact on a Debilitating Disease
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- ... and cancer. Public health officials worry that deforestation, rapid urban sprawl, and changing rainfall patterns – such as Brazil’s devastating May floods – could dramatically shift the locations where ...
- Created on 06 August 2024
- 14. Satellite Data Can Help Limit the Dangers of Windblown Dust
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- ... y for reasons that include extended drought conditions and urban sprawl, which disrupt the fragile biotic crust of the desert,” said John Haynes, program manager for NASA’s Health and Air Quality Appli ...
- Created on 16 November 2023
- 15. Climate Change Hurting Water Quality in Rivers Worldwide, Study Finds
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- ... a drop in flow meant there was less runoff, it also meant there was less water available to dilute contamination, such as pharmaceuticals from urban wastewater. Overheated rivers also had higher levels ...
- Created on 12 September 2023
- 16. Scientists Track Tropical Landslide Creeping Below an African City
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- ... exposes geologic hazards amid unprecedented urban sprawl. Creeping from just a finger’s width up to a few feet per year, slow-moving landslides occur naturally throughout the world. They typically ...
- Created on 06 February 2023
- 17. Losing Ground in Biodiversity Hotspots Worldwide
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- ... urban sprawl. Between 1992 and 2015, the world’s most biologically diverse places lost an area more than three times the size of Sweden when the land was converted to other uses, mainly agriculture, ...
- Created on 29 October 2020
- 18. Majority of Europe’s Species, Ecosystems in Poor Condition, Report Finds
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- European ecosystems and wildlife are in “serious, continuing decline” due to unsustainable farming and forestry, urban sprawl, and pollution, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency. ...
- Created on 20 October 2020
- 19. Carnivores Living Near People Feast on Human Food, Threatening Ecosystems
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- Researchers collected bone and fur samples from almost 700 carnivores across four Great Lakes states to compare their diets to the extent of human development, which varied from minimal to urban sprawl. ...
- Created on 12 October 2020
- 20. Downsizing the McMansion: Study Gauges a Sustainable Size for Future Homes
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- ... Housing, Theory & Society makes the case for transitioning away from the large, single-family homes that typify suburban sprawl, offering new conceptions for what constitutes a more sustainable and sufficient ...
- Created on 06 March 2020
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