An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps ...

There are conflicting ideas about the development of rural Africa: On the one hand, governments and conservation organizations want to protect savanna ecosystems in order to preserve the habitat and ...

Researchers say the AI system can lead to better decision-making around a wide range of complex policy choices. Using global land use and carbon storage data from the past 175 years, researchers at ...

Australia’s recent land use change has steadily reduced and degraded native vegetation, shrinking the amount of intact habitat available to wildlife and weakening ecosystem resilience. Clearing has ...

AI-driven mapping now captures daily global land changes, enabling unprecedented monitoring of Earth’s surface transformations on a daily basis. This advancement unlocks real-time global land cover ...

Florida's development is driven by elected officials who approve land use changes requested by developers. Local governments regulate land use through comprehensive plans and zoning maps, which are ...

In the last scheduled days of their tumultuous 2025 session, Florida legislators passed Senate Bill 180 “to bolster hurricane relief and recovery and enhance response efforts in Florida,” according to ...

The Alberta government has opened public consultation on proposed land-use changes in the Bow Valley, including a potential ...

The Sussex County Council introduced four new ordinances based on recommendations from the Land Use Reform Working Group.