Climate change is making dry periods, droughts and heavy rains increasingly frequent. Brigitte Helmreich, professor at the ...

By 2050, the crisis is expected to deepen significantly. Between one-third to nearly half of the global urban population is ...

“That’s good news. We’re slowing down the loss of ecosystems,” said Bates-Frymel. More recently, the region lost 700 hectares of forest, 400 hectares of which were in the urban core.

In such an urban setting, the floating wetlands create habitat, improve water quality, provide aesthetic and recreational value, and foster opportunities for community engagement.

“In all of these cases, we see a trend where temperatures and water consumption go up; it’s just a matter of how much,” says Li. Li and Haghighat say their study is one of the first to include climate ...

Metro Vancouver's urban core is losing hundreds of hectares of sensitive ecosystems annually as regional planners attempt to increase protected lands by 25 per cent, by 2050.

In one of the driest states in the U.S., a green revolution is taking root. Southern Arizona, long challenged by relentless ...