When I ask whether urbanization is a positive force, I am really asking two questions: Is the standard of living higher for people who live in cities? And, is it a positive force for the environment?

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

In “Effects of Urbanization on the Diversity, Abundance, and Composition of Ant Assemblages in an Arid City” past visiting assistant professor Javier Miguelena and Paul Baker sampled the ant ...

Don’t let the rats fool you. Although the pizza-pilfering vagabonds — and a variety of other creatures — thrive in cities, for many wild animals urban environments are unappealing homes, covered in ...

Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of ...

Air pollution. Traffic. Animals dying. Habitat loss. All of these issues are side effects of urbanization, according to the United Nations. But, with a new rewilding solution that is being tested in ...

Urbanization is a major driver of tropical biodiversity loss. In temperate regions avian species richness–urbanization intensity relationships typically exhibit unimodal patterns, with peak richness ...

Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and voles have experienced changes to their skulls in response to urban ...

A warming climate could make cities even less hospitable to wild mammals, according to new research. By Emily Anthes Don’t let the rats fool you. Although the pizza-pilfering vagabonds — and a variety ...