Urban birds, from robins to feral pigeons, are also bolder. In a 2008 study scientists found that urban birds are more ...

If California’s political leaders are serious about further reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions they need to take ...

The widespread destruction of old growth trees for ranching and farming is making it harder to get the wood traditionally ...

Wildfires are increasingly touching more diverse communities as fires grow in intensity and extend into urban areas, ...

It's also evident closer to the coast where Newport ... but building in the wildland urban interface comes with risk. Nearly 100,000 homes in Orange County are in areas with a strong likelihood ...

What does the evidence suggest? Is the weight of the world's enormous poverty problem, historically a predominantly rural phenomenon, shifting to urban areas? Is urbanization good or bad from the ...

Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. The mussel and crustacean species studied were able to adapt to disturbed environments, ...

The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect causes cities to remain several degrees warmer than surrounding rural areas, particularly ...

Urban areas are complex places which are constantly in a state of change. They are also steeped in history and often give evidence of how people were living at a particular time. Issues facing ...

They aren’t likely to mention rural areas in states like Mississippi, New Mexico, and Arkansas. Yet the rate of poverty is significantly higher in rural America than it is in urban America. According ...

A recent study has uncovered compelling evidence suggesting that the climate effects of new particles in urban areas have been significantly underestimated. Particles play a crucial role in ...