https://www.europesays.com/uk/334769/ Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden | Genome Biology #AnimalGeneticsAndGenomics #Bioinformatics #EvolutionaryBiology #Flanders #Genetics #HumanGenetics #LowCountries #Medieval #MicrobialGeneticsAndGenomics #Migration #PalaeoGenomics #Plague #PlantGeneticsAndGenomics #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #Urbanization
Excerpt from "Tragic Details About #ModestMouse" from 2023...
#IsaacBrock suffers from #EcoAnxiety
"Isaac Brock has long been vehemently opposed to #urbanization and the #DestructionOfNature, and these have remained central lyrical themes going back to the band's earliest material (per Paste Magazine). As Healthline notes, such feelings of frustration towards environmentally destructive practices, anger at the seeming inevitability of #ClimateChange, and fear for the Earth's future are called eco-anxiety –- and Brock has been suffering from it for years.
"In Pitchfork's 2012 '#LonesomeCrowdedWest' documentary, he described living in Washington State in the '90s as having a 'front-row seat to watching #forests disappearing and #UrbanSprawl begin,' lamenting the constant clearing of natural places to make way for #StripMalls. In fact, he was still thinking about it in 2021 when he told Uproxx that his childhood home regularly flooded due to forest #clearcutting.
"Many Modest Mouse songs center on shameless human destruction, with the 2015 hit '#LampshadesOnFire' -– in which Brock sings about mankind going to space to find a new planet after destroying Earth -– serving as a notable example. But in recent years, he's making an effort to focus on the positive, as evidenced by hopeful songs like 'The Sun Hasn't Left,' in which he sings, 'You're not wrong, things are a mess but there's still something left.' 'I found optimism where it actually existed because I needed it,' he told NME in 2021, adding, 'Y'know, I got three kids ... I don't think s***'s gonna get easier for everyone.' "
Read More: https://www.grunge.com/1159159/tragic-details-about-modest-mouse/
Mountains and Urbanization
Over the years, I notice housing taking over the mountain tops. I understand people need a place to live, but surely destroying nature is not the way. Especially if it's all concrete and asfalt. As more and more rental companies buy local apartments, prices are so out of reach for local income it's crazy. How can you afford an apartment when they are going for 500K and 900K when locals may earn 20-30K at best?!
Over 92% of South Koreans now live in urban areas, with urbanization stabilizing and land use shifting toward more residential, commercial, and industrial zones, according to government data.
#YonhapInfomax #Urbanization #MinistryOfLandInfrastructureAndTransport #LandUse #DevelopmentPermits #PopulationStatistics #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=73225
https://www.europesays.com/2159620/ First and Last Mile Delivery Markets Report 2025-2034: E-commerce Surge Fuels Demand #AutonomousVehicles #business #CarbonEmissions #CostEfficiency #DeliveryMarket #DeliveryProcesses #DeliverySpeed #ElectricVehicles #markets #urbanization
Rapid urbanization and shrinking green spaces drive urban heat island effects in lower income countries https://phys.org/news/2025-05-rapid-urbanization-green-spaces-urban.html
Deadly Botswana rains made more likely by climate change, rapid urbanization
Stories from #TheAmazon, #Kenya and #Zimbabwe
#WorldWaterDay: 3 stories of #resistance and #restoration from around the globe
Kristine Sabillo, 21 Mar 2025
"More than 2 billion people around the world live without access to safe drinkable water, as rivers, #groundwater, lakes and #glaciers face continued threats of #pollution and overexploitation due to #urbanization, #EnvironmentalDestruction, and #ClimateChange .
"This World Water Day, #Mongabay looks back at some of its coverage from 2024 on how local communities are trying to protect the world’s dwindling water resources."
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/world-water-day-3-stories-of-resistance-and-restoration-from-around-the-globe/
#WaterSecurity #WaterIsLife #RiversAreLife #OceansAreLife #Wetlands #Marshes #Rivers
It feels like ages ago that I attended the Transforming #Cities: #urbanization and International #development Policies in the #GlobalSouth in the Twentieth Century #conference organized by #unibwm and #FUBerlin in the #grunewald district of #berlin (see photo), where the event was held at the European Academy. The #conference featured a lot of fascinating #talks and I also received a lot of constructive and useful #feedback for my #presentation on 1/4
"While public discourses often focus on international migration, scientific evidence shows that when climatic factors drive #migration, it often results in short-distance moves within national borders.
"Many #climate-induced migrants move to urban areas, contributing to the accelerated #urbanization trends observed in numerous countries.
Our work underscores the need for policies that address both the drivers of migration and the consequences for destination regions."
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-climate-impacts-internal-migration-worldwide.html
Protesters demand that #Japan save 1000s of #trees by revising a design plan for a popular #Tokyo park
Story by Mari Yamaguchi, September 17, 2023
"#Protesters in Tokyo formed a #HumanChain Sunday to demand the government save thousands of trees by revising its plan to redevelop a popular downtown park.
"Demonstrators, many wearing green shirts and holding up signs saying, 'Save Jingu Gaien,' demanded the Education Ministry take action even though the landowner is one of its agencies.
"#Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike approved the plan in February, a move that would allow #developers — real estate company Mitsui Fudosan, Meiji Jingu shrine, Itochu Corp. and the ministry-affiliate Japan Sports Council — to build a pair of 200-meter (650-foot) #skyscrapers and an 80-meter (260-foot) tower.
"That would require cutting down nearly 3,000 trees at #JinguGaien, one of Tokyo's most historic and beloved #green areas. The plan would also raze and rebuild a historic baseball stadium where Babe Ruth played and change a rugby field to one with artificial grass.
"Also at stake are the well-known 150 #gingko trees lining a century-old promenade built to commemorate Emperor Meiji, the great-grandfather of Emperor Naruhito. Critics and environmental activists say the gingko trees will be under threat from any construction right next to them.
"'I just had to come and do something to stop tree-cutting that could start this month,' said Nahoko Shirakawa, holding a handmade sign. 'I cannot just sit around and see the demise of 100-year-old gingko trees.'
"Rochelle Kopp, a movement leader who operates a Tokyo management consulting company, said the ministry should protect the Gaien as a #NaturalCulturalHeritage site. She said the ministry also should designate the area as a scenic site as a way of protecting it."
