When coyote parents get used to humans, their offspring become bolder, too
Credit: Steve Guymon/National Wildlife Research Center Across North America, coyotes are moving into urban environments, and regardless of how they ...
Tag: Urbanization
When green ‘fixes’ actually increase the carbon footprint
New research shows that when tech companies move in, they often encourage a sustainability mindset, but can lead to gentrification ...
How online neighborhood reviews could aid urban planning
Online data can tell us a lot about the places where we live -- if we can develop ways to ...
UTA civil engineer would fuse data methods to determine more accurate numbers
Bicycle dataCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington civil engineering assistant professor is exploring data fusion techniques that ...
Gay and lesbian spaces in the city becoming more diverse, not going away
Credit: Amin Ghaziani Gay and lesbian spaces in cities are dispersing and diversifying rather than disappearing, new University of British ...
Green spaces can help you trust strangers
Simple, inexpensive urban design interventions can increase well-being and social connections among city residents, finds a new case study from ...
‘Radiance Light Trends’ shows changes in Earth’s light emissions
New web application allows anyone to analyze lighting trends observed by satellites since 1992Credit: GFZ Many scientific datasets from satellites ...
Engineers develop inexpensive, smart stop sign to improve driver safety
Credit: Video courtesy of UTSA (San Antonio, Mar. 6, 2019) - It's dark on the backroad as a motorist speeds ...
Weather-responsive intersections could ease traffic congestion
Cities could ease congestion and improve safety during snowstorms by tweaking the timing of traffic lights to take road conditions ...
‘A gift from the city to itself’
Study creates a blueprint for city marine parksCredit: University of Plymouth Coastal cities are among the fastest growing population centres ...
Home insurance buyers lack access to public flood data
Canadian homeowners do not have the information they need to know if they should buy flood insurance leaving them exposed ...
Accompanying research to start on the test area for autonomous driving
Scientists analyze traffic-related, technological, social, and legal impacts -- recommendations to politics, society, and industryCredit: Photo: Manuel Balzer, KIT On ...
Jacob Job lands grant from the National Geographic Society to study songbirds, humans
Credit: William A. Cotton/CSU Photography Jacob Job spends a lot of time each year in the great outdoors, recording the ...
Study: Political parties sideline minority voters, leave other orgs to pick up the slack
Outreach by nonpartisan institutions increases nonwhite voter participation A vote is a vote is a vote, supposedly, with each citizen ...
Federal fire grant spending could be more balanced, new model suggests
Alabama, Ohio and Pennsylvania received more than their fair share in 2014, according to new model, while Florida, Texas and ...
Faced with choice overload, Indian farmers say, ‘I’ll have what he’s having’
Genetically modified seeds have exploded in India since the government liberalized the economy in the 1990sCredit: Purdue University/Andrew Flachs Suicide ...
Protecting small forests fails to protect bird biodiversity
Forests need better management to maintain ecological integrity, Rutgers-led study saysCredit: Matthew Sileo Simply protecting small forests will not maintain ...
A new study looks at ways to cut roadkill numbers for small and medium-sized mammals
Traffic on the expanded Highway 175 from Quebec City to the Saguenay has been a cause of death for thousands ...
Polymers pave way for wider use of recycled tires in asphalt
Each year, about 27 million tires end up in landfills, dumps and stockpiles, where they pose health and environmental hazards. ...
New model predicts how ground shipping will affect future human health, environment
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The trucks and trains that transport goods across the United States ...