A team from the Wood Lab, a UW lab that researches aquatic parasite ecology, traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico this summer ...

The oscillation between the attraction of cities and their abandonment represents a recurring pattern in human history. This ...

SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 104. Advances in Water Resources, Coastal Management, and Marine Science Technology (FALL 2020), pp. 670-675 (6 pages) Published By: Coastal Education & Research Foundation, Inc.

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

Discover the urgent global crisis of sand depletion, a critical but overlooked resource essential for construction and ...

The current trend of urban expansion poses a major threat to the environment, human health and development, a first global assessment released on Monday by United Nations Convention on Biodiversity ...

The ongoing wide-scale introduction of nonnative plants across the world may negatively influence native invertebrate fauna, due to a lack of coevolved traits related to the novel plants, e.g., unique ...

As the world's population continues to grow, the population density in cities is rising much more quickly than in rural areas. This phenomenon, known as urbanization, is playing out across the globe ...

New research sheds light on the effect urbanization has on the flesh fly species Sarcophaga similis. Through a series of laboratory and in-field experiments, scientists show that an increase in ...