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If you could go back in time to the 1980s, you would find a city that is drastically different than…
What makes an urban heat island? Why is New York City a "hot" town? Where are the hottest places on…
Theme parks and other development has turned Central Florida from swampland to the most visited tourist region of the United…
To expand the possibilities for beachfront tourist development, Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, undertook a massive engineering project…
Green roofs can mitigate urban heat islands and heat waves.
Researchers have found that by reducing the amount of vegetation over large tracts of land, urbanization may affect the levels…
Using satellite images of city lights at night, NASA scientists constructed a map of urbanized areas and integrated this map…
For the past six years, researchers have been looking for ways to measure the effects of urbanization on biological productivity…
