Urban Lifestyle Shapes Sensitive Skin Phenotypes in New Study
A cross-sectional study of 151 women in China reveals that urbanization levels and lifestyle factors significantly modulate the biological and ...
Tag: Urbanization
Landscape Quality Evaluation Reveals Four Shore Disparities Across Dianchi Lake Villages
Researchers evaluated 47 traditional villages around Dianchi Lake using an integrated AHP-TOPSIS framework, uncovering distinct spatial patterns and landscape quality ...
New open access journal links underground innovation to sustainability
GeoEnergy Communications launches as a free open access journal dedicated to sustainable subsurface use for energy, storage and infrastructure.
Earth–Brain–Health Commission links climate and urban change to mental health
A new commission report argues that climate, ecological and urban transformations are integral to brain health across the lifespan and ...
Six paradigm shifts could redefine how Global South cities plan for sustainability
A new grand challenge article argues that sustainable urban planning in the Global South requires six paradigm shifts, from systems ...
Machine learning maps how national conditions track global mental health burden
A machine-learning panel study of 183 countries from 1990 to 2023 finds that GDP per capita, urbanization and life expectancy ...
Stray cats and dogs in Malaysia carry uncharacterised Bartonella lineages in fleas
A survey of 296 stray cats and dogs in Peninsular Malaysia found flea-borne pathogens in most fleas, including previously uncharacterised ...
Cropland Shrank Yet Grain Output Soared 66% in Henan as Cities Ate the Farmland
A two-decade analysis of Henan Province finds that built-up land, not forest, absorbed most lost cropland while grain production still ...
Differential Impacts of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Community Composition and Alpha Diversity of Macroinvertebrates at a Large Urban River System
A survey of 385 river sites in Ningbo, China, found that urban and agricultural land use significantly restructures macroinvertebrate communities ...
China looks to America’s 80-year experiment in planning PhD education
A new comparative study traces how US urban planning doctoral programs developed since the 1940s and what China's younger, smaller ...
Urban–rural integration decoded: 44 global cases reveal a three-tier governance engine
A new case-study analysis of 44 UN-Habitat-documented practices identifies a three-tier governance structure and proposes a co-evolutionary mechanism explaining how ...
Globalization Cuts India’s Ecological Footprint While Resource Depletion Drives It Up, Study Finds
A time-series analysis of India from 1990 to 2018 finds that natural resource depletion and renewable energy consumption increase ecological ...
Within-Country Divides Now Dominate Global Urban Inequality, Study Finds
A two-decade global analysis of subnational data finds that inequality within countries, not between them, now dominates spatial disparities in ...
Peer-reviewed scat study finds Seattle coyote density ninefold above wild Washington
A peer-reviewed scat-based study estimated that coyote density in Seattle was nine times higher than in wild study areas elsewhere ...
Dengue and Its Mosquito Vector Are Climbing Into Latin America’s High Mountains
A scoping review of 28 studies finds Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and active dengue transmission at elevations up to 2,550 meters ...
Urban Habitat Mosaics Structure Invasive Termite Gene Flow Without Genetic Erosion
A three-landscape study in Guadeloupe found that urban habitat reorganized the genetic structure of invasive termites without reducing their measured ...
Two-year subtropical island survey links habitat and disturbance to invasive plants
A two-year observational survey of 18 plots on subtropical Hengqin Island found that invasive plant cover and community composition were ...
Avian malaria found in nearly 40 percent of wild birds in Guatemala’s transforming dry forest
A first molecular survey of wild birds in Guatemala's Motagua Valley found avian malaria in 38 percent of sampled birds, ...
Climate, Cities and Vanishing Forests Are Rewriting the Map of Vector-Borne Disease
A comprehensive review proposes a triaxial framework showing that climate change, deforestation, urbanization, and biodiversity loss interact synergistically to reshape ...
Urban land use influences microbial functional traits along a management intensity gradient
A large-scale study of 135 urban soils in Blois, France, shows that management intensity acts as a strong ecological filter, ...
