As urbanization accelerates, ecosystems are often pushed to the brink, leading to the degradation of ecological services and heightened environmental stress. Traditional urban planning has typically ...

Traditionally, it has been assumed that cultivating food leads to a loss of biodiversity and negative impacts on an ecosystem. A new study found that urban gardens are beneficial for biodiversity, ...

What is a city? What are the geographical conditions and social factors that lead to the concentration of population in an area, and how does urbanization progress? And what is needed to create urban ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. A new study of 5.6 million trees across 63 U.S. cities’ tree ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 64, No. 3 (May 2019), pp. 877-894 (18 pages) Headwater streams draining urbanized watersheds are subject to frequent and intense storm flows. These floods can disrupt ...

WILD SCAPES. Moss pink phlox makes a great lawn substitute. Photo by Leach “I feel like I’ll never be done learning the native plants of this area,” says Sarah Coury, garden manager of the Botanical ...

Visions of the urban future tend to revolve around mile-high skyscrapers, flying cars and high-tech solutions to sustainability challenges. But there is another vision that foresees a return to the ...

Peri-urban landscapes are urban-rural interfaces that experience challenges due to dynamic urbanisation and climate change effects. These landscapes are also characterized by overlapping jurisdictions ...

Bangkok lags behind global urban green space standards, sparking large-scale tree-planting initiatives across the city. Recent research warns that despite these efforts, the city continues to rapidly ...

Traditionally, it has been assumed that cultivating food leads to a loss of biodiversity and negative impacts on an ecosystem. A new study defies this assumption, showing that community gardens and ...