Cities worldwide face a growing challenge that affects millions of residents daily. Urban areas globally have become home to ...

While urbanization has restricted and fragmented the natural ecosystems, it also creates new and diverse environmental ...

Identifying and separating the signal of urbanization effects in current temperature data series is essential for accurately detecting, attributing, and projecting mean and extreme temperature change ...

It used to be that people didn’t need an air conditioning unit if they lived in cities by the San Francisco Bay, such as Berkeley, Oakland or San Francisco. But thanks in part to something called the ...

NORFOLK, Va. — As we all know, Hampton Roads has a mixture of cities, rural towns, and farmland, but where you live can affect how hot the day gets. This has to do with albedo, or the measurement of ...

Researchers found the plants growing in the different habitats had "significant" differences in several traits, including ...

Latin America has had a very rapid and intense urbanization process in the last century. Along with North America, both regions have the highest levels of urbanization worldwide. The cities where most ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW — We’ve had more than our fair share of summer warmth this year in Western New York. But have you ever noticed that it seems hotter in the city? There’s a reason for that, and it’s ...

AUSTIN, Texas — As Austin sails through what is likely to become the hottest July on record, the last thing we want to hear about is an increase in temperatures. Unfortunately, new data from Climate ...

The depletion of water resources (e.g. rivers and lakes) is more rapid and evident in proximity of urban areas and, as one gets away from cities, it gradually decreases. A research group from the ...