Research news | 2021-02-24

Without the ‘hinterlands’ cities will struggle

A closer alignment between cities and their surroundings will be key for positive development and governance

Research news | 2020-02-21

What history can teach us about the resilience of a system

Despite rapid urban growth, agriculture in a wetland area in the south of Mexico City soldiers on, more than a millennium after its birth

Research news | 2019-12-09

The invisible loss

Why urban growth causes more biodiversity loss outside of cities and why that is far more important in magnitude

Research news | 2018-11-16

Cities risk swallowing extensive wildlife habitat by 2030

New report projects area of habitat larger than New Zealand could be lost to urbanization over next 20 years

Research news | 2018-10-18

Not so smart after all…?

Popular concept for building sustainable cities stands on fragile scientific grounds

Research news | 2018-03-14

A hard rain’s gonna fall

Amid an increase in megacities, changes in ecosystems far away can affect local access to freshwater

Research news | 2017-05-10

Swallowing valuable land

Rapid urban expansion leaves Indian megacity Chennai without essential ecosystem services

Research news | 2017-04-11

No longer on the fringes

Why peri-urban areas should be seen as much more than just spaces between cities and their outskirts

Research news | 2016-12-26

Lost in urbanisation

Urban expansion will result in a 1.8-2.4% loss of global croplands by 2030, says paper in PNAS

Research news | 2016-08-30

Improving the science of cities

How urban ecology can go from being a plot-based research activity to a global cross-comparative research programme

Research news | 2015-09-18

Living in a loop

Use of ecosystem services more determined by income, gender and land tenure than physical access

Research news | 2015-06-23

No regrets

New Lancet commission on health and climate change presents opportunities and solutions amid serious climate change

Research news | 2015-06-05

Fruits of the urban jungle

Special issue highlights the social importance of ecosystem services in urban areas

Research news | 2014-07-23

The case of nature in cities

Special issue of Current Conservation on why it's time to start thinking of cities as more than grey patches of asphalt and concrete

Research news | 2013-08-11

This land is your land...

Urban green areas managed by citizens can reduce ecosystem management costs and help people reconnect to nature

Research news | 2013-07-22

Connecting ecosystem services to Swedish cities

Report in Swedish first to explain benefits of ecosystem services in urban development