As humanity spreads across more of the globe, urban areas sprawl out and push the wild areas of the world further back. Some creatures retreat into the forest and fields, but others adapt to city life ...

Bird species that do well in urban areas are more colorful and less brown. Urbanization has a huge impact on the ecosystem and poses enormous challenges to animals and plants. The ongoing, worldwide ...

Counterurbanization, a term new to me, is the phenomenon of Americans increasingly moving from large cities to rural areas. This reverses a trend that began with the Industrial Revolution and ...

A comprehensive 40-year study (1981–2020) of 587 major Chinese lakes reveals that urbanization is a key driver of accelerated lake warming. The warming rate was 58.3% higher in the densely populated ...