With more than half the world now living in cities and urban land cover expected to increase by about 1.2 million square ...

"More than half of the urban land cover on the planet by 2030 has yet to be built," Seto explains. "The expansion of urban areas will have a direct impact on biodiversity hot spots." ...

The calculation depends on how the reference "rural" sites are included and how the urban land cover is situated. In the study, we found that both dense and sprawling urban regions can enhanced ...

A research team led by the University of Aberdeen has developed a pioneering AI model to improve accuracy and reduce ...

Three percent of the world's land surface is covered with urban areas, an increase of at least 50 percent over previous estimates, scientists said this week. The Global Rural Urban Mapping Project ...

The air, surface and soil temperatures in cities are almost always warmer than in rural areas. It’s known as the urban heat island (UHI) – a term which first came into use in the mid-20th century.

By 2030, the paper notes, the amount of urban land cover worldwide will have grown by 1.2 million square kilometers (or more than 463,000 square miles) since 2000 -- roughly tripling over a 30 ...

Hossain, E. , Tahia, F. , Siemens, A. , Islam, M. , Rahman, Z. and Ahmad, I. (2025) Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Land Use ...

The Karnataka government reclaimed 120 acres of encroached forest land in the Kadugodi plantation, valued at Rs 4,000 crore.