Topic: urbanization

View of Red Howler monkeys sitting on branch in forest, Catatumbo River, Venezuela. (Getty Images/simonkr)

How habitat fragmentation harms wildlife

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Irrigation ditch running next to vineyard and almond orchard in Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California. (Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Urbanization is collapsing the ground

Matthew Rozsa
Silhouette of a man looking at the Milky Way Stars shining above (Getty Images)

Chris Impey, Connie Walker
A slum in area Sura in Lagos, Nigeria (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dredging in Lagos

Maggie Andresen, Samuel Denapo, Lydia Chain - Undark
(Getty/IP Galanternik D.U.)

Welcome to suburbia

Christopher Boone - The Conversation
(Shutterstock/Salon)

A city is not a "brand"

Jason Rhode
(<a href='url to photographer'>Paul Aniszewski</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Joanna Rothkopf