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As urbanization accelerates, ecosystems are often pushed to the brink, leading to the degradation of ecological services and heightened environmental stress. Traditional urban planning has typically ...

In Can Gio, Vietnam, Vinhomes Green Paradise demonstrates how a super real estate project can be the answer to the major ...

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from ...

My research focuses on plant community ecology with an emphasis on urban ecological restoration (oak succession in a pioneer forest within a brownfield) and invasion ecology (distribution and ...

Most urban forest land is privately owned, but urban forestry is thought of as a public activity in our cities and towns. You may not even think about the landscaping and maintenance at your ...

The earliest cities may have had plenty of parasitic, six-legged tenants. Common bedbugs (Cimex lectularius) experienced a dramatic jump in population size around the time humans congregated in the ...

A Blue Zone 2.0, Singapore embeds care into the very fabric of society, using urban planning, architecture and design to create an environment where physical and mental well-being are seamlessly ...

GA, UNITED STATES, January 14, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A recent review has introduced the concept of scaling laws to urban ecosystems, offering a novel perspective ...