As temperatures rise around the world, city heat becomes increasingly unbearable during the hottest seasons. The urban heat ...

An upcoming UN report finds that the world is becoming increasingly urban, with cities now home to 45 per cent of the global population of 8.2 billion. This is more than double the share in 1950, when ...

A research team led by Prof. Liu Liangyun from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of ...

1 December 2025 – Our world is becoming increasingly urban. Cities are now home to 45 per cent of the global population of 8.2 billion, according to UN DESA’s World Urbanization Prospects 2025: ...

Researchers looked for evidence of precipitation anomalies in 1,056 cities across the globe and found that more than 60% of those cities receive more precipitation than their surrounding rural areas.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. New Zealand-based physicist & science journalist fascinated by cities In a new study published in Nature Cities, researchers have ...

More than half of the global population and about 80% of the U.S. population lives in cities — and faces higher heat risks. The entire planet is warming due to human-caused climate change, but the ...

This commentary was originally published by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies on May 16, 2024. Cities are thirsty places. By their very nature, cities concentrate the water ...