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A City’s Challenge of Dealing with Sea Level Rise

by Marc F. P. Bierkens 29 March 201825 May 2022

A well-developed case study in Ho-Chi Min City, Vietnam, exemplifies how other mega-cities located on deltas could face the major challenge of adapting to rising sea-level.

Expanding urban agriculture could improve food security, ecosystem health, and other ecosystem services
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Urban Agriculture Could Provide Billions in Ecosystem Services

by S. Witman 2 March 201823 February 2023

Expanding agriculture efforts in cities could improve food security, ecosystem health, and more.

Urban sewer networks grow outward in a manner similar to natural river networks.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Urban Sewers Evolve Similarly to River Networks

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 19 December 201727 April 2022

Like river systems, engineered drainage networks become increasingly fractal as they grow.

Flooding 17 October 2016 in downtown Miami, Fla.
Posted inScience Updates

Integrating Water Science and Culture for Urban Sustainability

by F. Nardi, M. Donoso and R. Teutonico 18 December 20171 March 2023

Workshop on Water and Environmental Global Challenges: International Water Infrastructures and Security; Miami, Florida, 23–25 May 2017

Residents in Beijing, China, line up to get water provided by a restaurant.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Modeling Beijing’s Water Crisis

Elizabeth Thompson by Elizabeth Thompson 25 October 20176 February 2023

Beijing’s growing population is rapidly draining its water supplies. A new study examines how land use change affects groundwater storage beneath the megacity.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Is Living Near a Farm Bad for Your Health?

by D. Ceccarelli and L. Smit 28 September 20174 October 2021

A recent commentary in GeoHealth highlighted the health risks for people living close to large-scale livestock farms.

Representatives from NYC and Rio look at the 2012 high-water mark from Hurricane Sandy at New York’s Battery Park.
Posted inScience Updates

Cities Partner to Prepare for Natural Hazards and Climate Change

by M. M. Hurwitz, F. Mandarino and D. B. Kirschbaum 18 July 201720 March 2023

NASA-Rio-UCCRN Workshop on Sea Level Rise, Urban Heat Islands, and Water Quality; New York, 14–16 November 2016

In September 2009, Typhoon Ketsana dropped 455 millimeters of rain on Manila in 24 hours, flooding the city.
Posted inNews

Mapping Dengue Fever Hazard with Machine Learning

Tim Hornyak, Science Writer by Tim Hornyak 14 June 201715 March 2023

Researchers develop a predictive software system to identify city-specific, dengue fever risk areas amid a global increase in cases.

Handlebar view of a courier bicycling in New York City.
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Novel Air Pollution Study Gauges Individual Cyclists’ Risks

by R. Kaufman 13 June 201717 March 2023

By attaching an array of instruments to bike commuters in New York City, researchers aim to evaluate ambient pollution amounts and doses at the level of an individual cyclist.

The green roof on Chicago’s City Hall
Posted inScience Updates

Cities Smarten Up and Go Green

by I. Seifert-Dähnn, M. Millstein and P. G. Røe 2 March 201711 August 2022

CIENS Urban Conference 2016: Smart and Green Cities – For Whom?; Oslo, Norway, 13 October 2016

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