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July 20, 2023

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Picturing Where Wildlands and People Meet at a Global Scale

Researchers have created the first tool to map and visualize the areas where human settlements and nature meet on a global scale. The tool could improve responses to environmental conflicts like wildfires, the spread of zoonotic diseases and loss of ecosystem ...

Online Searches Point to Growing Prevalence of Nature-Related Phobias in Urban Populations

According to a new study, internet searches indicate a growing prevalence of various biophobias across the world. Countries with larger urban populations show interest in a broader range of nature-related phobias, supporting the idea that urban ...

The Ground Is Deforming, and Buildings Aren't Ready

A new study has linked underground climate change to the shifting ground beneath urban areas. The phenomenon is affecting all major urban areas around the globe, causing civil structures and infrastructures to ...

Worse Than Diesel and Gasoline? Bioenergy as Bad as Fossils If There Is No Pricing of CO2 Emissions from Land-Use Change, Experts Argue

Demand for modern biofuels is expected to grow substantially in order to mitigate climate emissions. However, they are far from being a climate neutral alternative to gasoline and diesel. A new study shows that under current land-use regulations, ...
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Walkable Neighborhoods Help Adults Socialize, Increase Community

Adults who live in walkable neighborhoods are more likely to socialize and have a stronger sense of community, report ...

New USGS-FEMA Report Updates Economic Risk from Earthquakes

Even though most of the economic losses are concentrated in California and along the West Coast due to that region's high seismic hazard levels, significant population, and building exposure, ...

How Road Rage Really Affects Your Driving -- And the Self-Driving Cars of the Future

New research has identified characteristics of aggressive driving -- which impact both road users and the transition to self-driving cars of the ...

Cities Will Need More Resilient Electricity Networks to Cope With Extreme Weather

Dense urban areas amplify the effects of higher temperatures, due to the phenomenon of heat islands in cities. This makes cities more vulnerable to extreme climate events. Large investments in the ...

At Least 80% of the World's Most Important Sites for Biodiversity on Land Currently Contain Human Developments

At least 80% of sites identified as being internationally important for biodiversity on land currently contain infrastructure -- of which more than 75% contain roads. In the future, more sites that ...

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Most cities don't map their own pedestrian networks. Now, researchers have built the first open-source tool to let planners do just that. Researchers have built TILE2NET, an open-source tool ...

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Understanding What Makes Senior Towns in Iowa 'Smart'

Researchers are looking to small towns in Iowa to understand how some support aging in place better than others. Their findings could help communities plan for the future and preserve a high quality ...

To Promote Exercise, Planners Must Look Beyond Cities

鼓励更多的积极的生活方式,酒吧lic health agencies recommend mixed-use neighborhoods and 'complete' streets that are friendlier to walkers and bikers, but new research finds that ...

丽芙·发展中国家支付的最高价格ing With Large Carnivores

A team of researchers has highlighted human-wildlife conflict as one of the globe's most pressing human development and conservation dilemmas. New research looked at 133 countries where 18 large ...

Heart Disease Deaths Declining, but Not for Everyone

Fewer people are dying from cardiovascular disease in the U.S., according to new research. But rural counties and those with a higher percentage of Black residents consistently experienced higher ...

Building Higher Islands Could Save the Maldives from Sea-Level Rise, Says Study

Artificially raising island heights or building completely new higher islands have been proposed as solutions to sea-level rise in the Maldives and other low-lying nations. Researchers show that ...

New Land Creation on Waterfronts Increasing, Study Finds

人类是人为地扩大城市coastlines by extending industrial ports and creating luxury residential waterfronts. Developers have added over 2,350 square kilometers of land (900 ...

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Engineers Examine Drinking Water Management Strategies

While residents in California are still dealing with damage from last month's floods -- after years of devastating droughts -- engineers are looking at better ways to manage the delivery of safe ...

China's Stricter Clean Heating Policies May Have Saved Thousands of Lives

China's stricter clean heating policies have improved air quality in northern China, particularly in Beijing and surrounding cities -- potentially reducing 23,000 premature deaths due to air ...

At Least Half of Africa's Rhinos Are Now in Private Hands; New Paths for Rhino Conservation Are Needed

African rhino numbers are declining at unsustainable rates in core state-run parks which is why more than half the continent's remaining rhinos are now on private ...

Novel Method for Assigning Workplaces in Synthetic Populations Unveiled

Synthetic populations are computer-generated models that mimic real-world populations in terms of characteristics such as age, gender, and occupation; they are useful when conducting social ...

Global Study Identifies Neighborhood Characteristics That Promote Walking and Cycling

How people perceive their own neighborhoods may have a lot to do with whether they choose to walk and cycle, according to a global study of nearly 40,000 adults. A health sciences professor says ...

It Would Take 23 Million Years for Evolution to Replace Madagascar's Endangered Mammals

90% of the plants and animals on Madagascar are found nowhere else on Earth, but this treasure trove of evolution is under serious threat due to habitat loss, over-hunting, and climate change. In ...

Is 'Fear' Driving Bias in Environmental Scholarship?

Scientists understand that fear of predation affects animal behavior within landscapes. Now researchers are using a similar hypothesis -- which they are calling 'social-ecological landscapes of ...

New York City's Greenery Absorbs a Surprising Amount of Its Carbon Emissions

A study of vegetation across New York City and some densely populated adjoining areas has found that on many summer days, photosynthesis by trees and grasses absorbs all the carbon emissions produced ...

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