The University of Georgia and the Rowen Foundation are partnering on a two-year study to monitor the environmental impact of ...

In a watershed decision with major implications for property rights and urban development, Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court has ruled that the government cannot ...

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 ...

It is a lousy analogy but an important issue. In a recent post, I calculated how much heat cars add to our urban environment and concluded that if we were serious about climate change and not ...

Cecilie S. Svenningsen, Diana E. Bowler, Susanne Hecker, Jesper Bladt, Volker Grescho, Nicole M. van Dam, Jens Dauber, David Eichenberg, Rasmus Ejrnæs, Camilla Fløjgaard, Mark Frenzel, Tobias G.

Studies have shown cities can see higher temperatures during heat waves compared with rural areas, but cities are taking steps to try to reduce that impact.