A three-way agreement was forged among the municipal government of Tubigon, Bohol, the National Housing Authority (NHA), and ...

Due to the heat island effect, urban areas are significantly warmer than nearby rural areas, even at night. This, combined with more frequent extreme weather events caused by climate change ...

May 8 (Reuters) - India's consumer goods sector reported an 11% growth in value in the March quarter, as rural growth outpaced that in urban areas for the fifth straight quarter, market research ...

Urban areas in Southern Asia, Eastern Europe, and Eastern Asia have seen the greatest reduction in heat-related deaths. The study aimed to detect the potential reduction in global heat-related ...

The first objective of developing a new urban area is to create the "urban buzz": that sense of thriving life in the streets, parks and other public spaces in a new development area. The urban ...

Smoke from wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires is significantly more harmful to human health than smoke from wildfires in remote areas. A new study finds that emissions from WUI fires are ...

Yet some species do better in urban areas than in rural ones. Research is showing that animals of the same species that live in cities and the countryside are behaving differently. These ...

In the 1990s, about 917,000 homes in the Bay Area were in wildland-urban Interface areas, or WUI. Those areas are on land that is on the edge or within the wilderness, putting it at high fire risk.

A recent study has uncovered compelling evidence suggesting that the climate effects of new particles in urban areas have been significantly underestimated. Particles play a crucial role in ...

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s, an Associated Press analysis shows.The Eaton and Palisades ...