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

Scientists know that urbanization and irrigation can significantly influence rainfall. However, they don’t fully know how these effects vary among different types of rain. Researchers investigated how ...

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 ...

Context dependence in ecological interactions is widespread, but our ability to predict how environmental variation will mediate the effects of a given interaction remains poor. Co-flowering plants ...

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, ...

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 ...