Urban trees are essential to the health of cities and their residents: they cool neighborhoods, filter pollution from the air ...

SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 104. Advances in Water Resources, Coastal Management, and Marine Science Technology (FALL 2020), pp. 670-675 (6 pages) Published By: Coastal Education & Research Foundation, Inc.

Healthbeat reports climate change is delaying spring in NYC parks, with large parks cooling better than smaller ones as ...

New research sheds light on the effect urbanization has on the flesh fly species Sarcophaga similis. Through a series of laboratory and in-field experiments, scientists show that an increase in ...

Rodents in Chicago have been adapting to an increasingly urban environment over the past century, a new study has shown. Evolution generally entails seeing small changes passed down over generations, ...

Penn Global is involved in funding a research project, along with the Center for the Advanced Study of India, investigating urbanization of rural towns in India. Credit: Kylie Cooper Penn Global and ...

UChicago’s Program on the Global Environment (PGE) may soon combine with the University’s Committee on Geographical Sciences to form a new University committee if a proposal for the merger is approved ...

A team of researchers from the Bhatnagar Lab at Boston University recently published a paper in Nature Cities that studied the difference in microbial communities of street trees and non-urban forest ...