{
  "id": 14427288,
  "title": "Beyond the urban surface: bird-borne sensing reveals the atmospheric structure of urban heat",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/beyond-the-urban-surface-bird-borne-sensing-reveals-the-atmospheric",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.12.758485v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Urban heat is commonly characterized near ground level, while its vertical atmospheric structure remains difficult to observe across cities. We used bird-borne temperature sensors on homing pigeons (Columba livia) and yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis) to investigate the horizontal, vertical and daytime structure of the lower urban atmosphere over Rome. The dataset comprised 61,917…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}