Parks and refuges are important for conservation, but without connections, they’re like islands. Linking them by protecting land in between makes it possible for wildlife to move over bigger areas.
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Keeping landscapes connected can help protect wild animals and plants. In the US Southwest, border wall construction is closing off corridors that jaguars and other at-risk species use.
Our surroundings will be very different over the duration of a typical mortgage.
Salmon migrate thousands of miles from inland streams to the ocean and back. The newly enacted infrastructure bill includes funding to help salmon and other wild species on their way.
When forester Benton MacKaye proposed building an Appalachian Trail 100 years ago, he was really thinking about preserving a larger region as a haven from industrial life.
It’s time to create a special remote status for communities that struggle with connectivity challenges and lack access to high-speed internet.
The pandemic has exacerbated existing issues of connectivity and access, but providers and patients are finding creative solutions.
A new plan targets areas around the world that can store carbon and protect large numbers of species. It calls for preserving these lands, working with Indigenous peoples and connecting wild areas.
As many offices have converted to work-from-home operations during the coronavirus pandemic, the human connection needed for successful work cultures has changed for the better.
A new study lays out a road map for protecting and restoring 50% of Earth’s surface, targeted to preserve biodiversity and maximize natural removal of carbon from the atmosphere.
A scholar who travels regularly to the US-Mexico border finds ecological links and a community on the other side that welcomes American visitors.
What is the best way to conserve US national parks in a climate-altered future? One answer is connecting parks and other public lands, so plants and animals can shift their ranges.
While networked entertainment systems, automated security, mood lights and voice-controlled thermostats make homes more secure and productive, they’re also just good fun.
E-commerce companies should deliberately build systems that are structured to provide supportive business environments for small and medium enterprises.
Australia has lagged behind some other countries in its investment in smart cities, but in retrospect that may not have been such a bad thing.
Capitalism has become focused on expanding the proportion of social life that is open to data collection and processing – as if the social itself has become the new target of capitalism’s expansion.
There is a way to improve safety across a rapidly evolving range of advanced mobility technologies and vehicles. The answer is connectivity.
The rhetoric of ‘smart cities’ is dominated by the economic, with little reference to the natural world and its plight. Truly smart and resilient cities need to be more in tune with the planet.
If a person is alone in the forest when a tree falls, but she doesn’t notice it because she is texting, does it still count as solitude?
We have come to see being digitally connected as part of the fabric of life in the city, but staying connected is a daily struggle for the marginalised and homeless.
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Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Brandeis University
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Director, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science and Professor, Arizona State University
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Distinguished Professor of Public Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
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Professor of Spatial Information, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Monash University
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Adjunct Professor, Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Professor of Urban and Cultural Geography, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Global Urban Politics and Director, Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne
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