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

If we want to ensure sustainable development, we need policies that put cities at the center,' says UN-Habitat’s deputy ...

Written by Alejandro Restrepo Montoya Published on July 31, 2024 Medellín's urban plan focuses on answering how urban planning can improve people's quality of life. By developing its proposal, the ...

A new study highlights a sharp contrast between urban and suburban ways of thinking about coastal ecosystems. The authors of the study used statistical and cognitive science techniques to analyze data ...

It’s complicated: Rooftop solar cells can affect the temperature of a building in several different ways. (Courtesy: iStock/MarioGuti) A systematic review of 116 papers looking at how solar panels ...

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 ...

Q1: What is e-waste? A1: E-waste refers to used electronics that are discarded or recycled. E-waste can originate as anything from mobile phones and televisions to VCRs and DVD players. The world ...

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 ...