{"id":18691,"date":"2026-05-06T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=18691"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:06:17","slug":"professor-steven-cooke-co-authors-study-on-urban-planning-to-support-the-conservation-of-freshwater-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2026\/professor-steven-cooke-co-authors-study-on-urban-planning-to-support-the-conservation-of-freshwater-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Steven Cooke co-authors study on urban planning to support the conservation of freshwater biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Steven Cooke co-authors study on urban planning to support the conservation of freshwater biodiversity\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Urban stormwater is washing toxic pollutants into rivers and streams, driving steep declines in freshwater species. The article argues that city planners can reverse this trend by redesigning urban areas with nature\u2011based infrastructure that filters and slows runoff before it reaches waterways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read full article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/environmentjournal.online\/transport\/our-cities-are-choking-freshwater-life-planners-can-change-that\/\">Our cities are choking freshwater life. Planners can change that \u2013 EnvironmentJournal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban stormwater is washing toxic pollutants into rivers and streams, driving steep declines in freshwater species. The article argues that city planners can reverse this trend by redesigning urban areas with nature\u2011based infrastructure that filters and slows runoff before it reaches waterways. Read full article here: Our cities are choking freshwater life. Planners can change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"article-print"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18695,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691\/revisions\/18695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}