The new Atlas of the Human Planet reveals 50 years of global population growth and urbanization trends, providing insights ...

A 5,000-year-old settlement was recently uncovered near Beit Shemesh at the site of Hurvat Husham in an excavation project ...

I travel a lot to understand how different countries address their urban sprawl because we use such insights to design ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient Bronze Age town under an oasis in Saudi Arabia’s Madinah province that ...

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Mexico City's chinampas, artificial islands first built by the Aztecs hundreds of years ago, are under threat from ...

China success in urbanization, particularly in areas like advanced transportation systems, pollution control and enhanced ...

A Bronze Age settlement hidden on the Arabian Peninsula reveals secrets about the slow growth of urbanization in the region. A small 4,400-year-old town in the Khaybar Oasis of Saudi Arabia hints ...

China people-centered new urbanization strategy offers valuable insights to the world the head of a UN program told Xinhua in a recent interviewChin ...

A new study published today in the International Journal of Health Geographics by researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and the Kenya Medical Research Institute ...

Friendship centres, which serve the needs of urban Indigenous people, are increasingly important in responding to climate disasters.

The result is that scorpions have become the most lethal poisonous animal in Brazil, posing a growing danger for people across the whole country -- and spurring demand for antivenom. The most widely ...