Since many kinds of wildlife have started living in urban environments, urban environments have been recognized as places of biodiversity conservation. What kind of factors facilitate or prohibit ...

Today, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050. Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth ...

Morocco’s population will increase from 36.8 million in 2024 to 43.3 million by 2060, with growth of approximately 17.8%, according HCP ...

As part of China’s reform program, urbanization continues to make gradual progress. The process has been ongoing since 2014, under the National New Urbanization Plan, with a focus on people-centered ...

Nearly half of Afghanistan's population is expected to live in urban areas by 2060, but many cities are unprepared for such ...

In recent years, the number of insects in a given ecosystem (biomass) and the number of insect species (biodiversity) has been declining. Some research in protected areas of Germany, for example, ...

A new research study from The University of Alabama in Huntsville addresses the question of how much urban areas have warmed from the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. The findings are published in the ...

Whether the process of urbanization is harnessed and managed, or allowed to fuel growing divides, will largely determine the future of inequality, says UN DESA’s World Social Report 2020. For the ...

Pedestrians walk past a construction site in Beijing. Photo credit: Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images Millions of people across the East Asia Pacific are moving to cities, and nowhere more so than in China, ...