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Fox eating from bin

Environment

There are five times more urban foxes in England than we thought

There may now be some 150,000 foxes living in English cities, up from 33,000 in the 1990s. That鈥檚 one fox for every 300 urban residents

Plants growing in concrete elevated space

Environment

Islands in the sky used as Noah’s ark for threatened plants

Hexagonal square in city

Humans

Honeycomb-shaped streets would stop traffic from getting sticky

Conceptual city on US-Mexico border

Humans

Visions of utopia arrive in London from around the world

Scene-setter of a New York skyline at night with whooshy lights

Environment

The White House talks AI, but does it understand?

Close up of a white-footed tamarin

Environment

City slicker monkeys are overweight and have high cholesterol

Green expanse surrounded by the buildings of Newcastle upon Tyne

Humans

Sound artist Chris Watson listens to a city breathe

Forever, Ai Weiwei, is a sculpture made of bicycles

Environment

Megacities Asia challenges the utopian view of smart cities

Lizard on reddish wall

Life

Lizard gets to grips with city life by evolving stickier feet

Close-up side view of fly

Environment

Los Angeles launches hunt for unknown species hiding in cities

Cities worldwide hold much wildlife that is little studied, an oversight that the new campaign run by LA's Natural History Museum aims to remedy

Life

Savagely malled: Why ‘smart’ cities aren’t so smart

Earth

Take a detour to improve traffic for everyone else

Technology

Skyscrapers of the future will be held together with glue

Humans

Govern by gaming: Gritty sim reveals truths about urban planning