The wetland model of urban sustainability

Writing in the International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, a team from Japan explains that "wetlands play an important role in a sustainable urban future." They add that these environmental regions provide ecological ...

Establishing the science of stone walls

New England's landscape is known for many things, such as the brilliant diversity of colorful foliage on display each autumn. It is at this time of the year when another iconic landscape feature re-emerges as the leaves fall—thousands ...

Determining the causes of the 1931 Yangtze River Deluge

In the summer of 1931, an unprecedented calamity unfolded along the Yangtze River basin in eastern China—the 1931 Yangtze River flood, known as one of history's deadliest natural disasters. This cataclysmic event submerged ...

Understanding river alteration via shifting flow regime

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) published their findings on the drastic short-term alterations in rivers accompanied by shifts in vegetation and geomorphology drawn from ...

Viewpoint: Paying the costs of climate resilience

The transition to an environmentally sustainable economy has begun, but it will be a generation (about twenty years) before we will see moderation of global warming. The cost of reducing climate pollution faster would be ...

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