Tag: Cities
Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees,...
Yuyu Zhou, Iowa State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
A water strategy for the parched West: Have cities pay farmers...
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
“Are you going to run out of water?” is the first question people ask...
How food became the perfect beachhead for gentrification
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, San Diego State University
Everybody, it seems, welcomes the arrival of new restaurants, cafés, food trucks and...
Farmers markets are growing their role as essential sources of healthy...
Edna Ledesma, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Alfonso Morales, University of Wisconsin-Madison
For many Americans, buying fresh local food at...
Lighter pavement really does cool cities when it’s done right
Hessam AzariJafari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Randolph E. Kirchain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
When heat waves hit, people...
Lighter pavement really does cool cities when it’s done right
Hessam AzariJafari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Randolph E. Kirchain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
When heat waves hit, people...
Urban oil wells linked to asthma and other health problems in...
Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Bhavna Shamasunder, Occidental College
When California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a goal...
How some people can end up living at airports for months...
Janet Bednarek, University of Dayton
In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
