Over the past decade, cities around the world have increasingly turned to nature-based infrastructure to become more ...

Humanity is driving evolution on Earth. At least, that's what a new project involving 287 scientists across 160 cities in 26 different countries has suggested. That research suggests that over the ...

If you’ve ever walked under a streetlight on a warm evening and noticed a large web stretched between poles or buildings, you’re not imagining things. In some cities, certain spiders are actually ...

From the perspective of complex systems, a new study reveals the universality, specificity, and explanatory power of underlying rules governing urban system evolution. The paper is authored by an ...

"April 2018"--Title page verso. NH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of "urban ecologists" studying how our manmade ...

Humans do a lot of different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural processes – aside from an asteroid impact or the like – that can rival the scale of change brought on by human ...