In fast-growing cities, especially in Asia and the Middle East, new skyscrapers are completed regularly, shifting the ...

Environment Nation & World Science Urban Animals Can’t Take the Heat, Study Finds Sep. 4, 2023 at 9:40 am By EMILY ANTHES ...

Urbanization’s Dual Impact: Challenges and Opportunities in a Rapidly Expanding World Around 4.4 billion people, equivalent to 56% of the global population, live in cities according to the World ...

With an estimated 80% of people around the world now living in urban settings, “we are concentrating ourselves in much, much denser communities amongst urban mosquitoes," Shepherd says.

More than half of the world’s population live in urban areas where nature can feel like a distant concern. Thriving ecosystems do, however, exist within our cities — even beneath our feet ...

Using data from the August 2023 edition of the World Urban Areas report from Demographia, an urban development research group, 24/7 Wall St. identified the most densely populated city in the world.

World cities, home to most people, to add 2.5 billion more by 2050: U.N. By Mirjam Donath July 10, 20141:30 PM PDTUpdated July 10, 2014 ...