by admin | Nov 19, 2025
Many studies over the years have shown that city-dwellers benefit greatly from green spaces in urban areas. Now, the surprising discovery is that too much green space may be as bad as too little.Architects at HKU’s Urban Environments and Human Health Lab (UEHH Lab)...
by admin | Nov 19, 2025
The study took the groundbreaking approach of leveraging online data from Meta to provide the most comprehensive and timely estimates of migration’s true global sweep to date. The co-author of the research, Professor Guy Abel from the Department of Sociology,...
by admin | Oct 22, 2024
Cities have been associated with many things – more pollution, crime, inequality and traffic congestion. When they are poorly designed,with high population density, they can also increase social isolation and a sense of loneliness.This insight has been...
by admin | May 22, 2024
Last autumn, when classes resumed following the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a feeling of relief that life could go back to normal for children and youths. Yet almost the opposite happened. From August to October 2023, there were 16 reported cases of suicide attempts...
by admin | May 22, 2024
Facebook came in for a harsh grilling earlier this year when the CEO of parent company Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, was accused in a US Senate hearing of having ‘blood on his hands’. The reason was the mental health effects linked to the platform’s algorithms.Social media...
