If designed in certain ways, parks in urban areas can benefit people and nature. Credit: Jeff Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Research shows that parks are crucial ...

Urban parks are often seen as natural refuges from summer heat, but new Concordia research shows that, depending on the time of day, the way trees are arranged within parks can influence whether those ...

Cities, and those who live in them, are clamoring for more green space, and the benefits parks, trees, and recreation areas provide. The Trust for Public Land’s annual ParkScore report found nearly a ...

Urban green areas, including parks and gardens, are a fundamental part of our cities and are, on many occasions, the only contact that humans have with nature. The carbon stored in our parks also ...

A cross-disciplinary team of researchers at The University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of New Hampshire found a surprising connection between urban park size ...

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the proportion of people who live in towns or cities exceeds 86%. With our lives increasingly lived in urban ...

To most visitors, Hoboken’s ResilienCity Park might look like a normal (if rather upscale) park, complete with a large lawn for lounging, a playground, a basketball court, and an athletic field. But ...