Regular contact with nature provides multiple health benefits for people, but biodiversity is declining fast in an urbanizing world. Biodiversity offsets are implemented to compensate the negative residual impacts of economic development projects on biodiversity, people who stand lose from their local environment rarely considered. Offsetting typically involves creating, restoring or protecting...

Injury and disease affect neural processing and increase individual variations in patients when compared with healthy controls. Understanding this increased variability is critical for identifying the anatomical location of eloquent brain areas for pre-surgical planning. Here we show that precise and reliable language maps can be inferred in patient populations from resting scans of idle brain ...

The relevance of the boundary concept to ecological processes has been recently questioned. Humans in the post-industrial era have created novel lateral transport fluxes that have not been sufficiently considered in watershed studies. We describe patterns of land-use change within the Potomac River basin and demonstrate how these changes have blurred traditional ecosystem boundaries by increasi...

—Biologists know relatively little of how one of the most important avian phenotypic signals, feather coloration, may be affected by anthropogenic changes resulting from urbanization. We examined the relationship between urbanization and carotenoid-based plumage color of Northern Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) in 13 riparian forests distributed across a rural-to-urban landscape gradient in c...

Utah has a rich history related to air pollution; however, it is not widely known or documented. This despite quality being top issue of public concern for the state’s urban residents and acute episodes that feature some world’s worst short-term particulate matter exposure. As we discuss in this narrative review, relationship between pollution changed over time, as fuel sources shifted from woo...

Abstract This article considers ways in which human rights law ought to respond a growingly urban global order of blurred private—corporate—and state power. Fragmented and dispersed power comes together, different configurations public private, the cities towns world. For this reason, local government presents appropriate scale at re-conceptualize operation international norms, also against pri...