If you look at satellite images of the world over just the last five years, some of the changes are striking: Massive swaths of forest burned in Australia, Russia, and California. In Egypt, urban ...

Humans leave their "footprints" on the land area all around the globe. These land-use changes play an important role for nutrition, climate, and biodiversity. Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of ...

Accurate land cover mapping underpins biodiversity protection, climate adaptation, and sustainable land use. Despite advances in remote sensing, satellite-only approaches remain limited by cloud cover ...

The Bastrop City Council unanimously approved the city’s future land use map on Tuesday after a lengthy discussion on the specifics of proposed land use downtown. James Cowey, the city’s director of ...

A new online mapping tool from the city of Vancouver is making it easier for residents to understand how proposed land use changes — a part of the city’s ongoing work to update its 20-year growth plan ...

The UK Gov has published England’s first-ever Land Use Framework. The framework sets out a long-term plan to better manage ...

ASHEVILLE - Future dense development of up to 30 units per acre in Buncombe County will likely be centered around I-26, I-40, U.S. 70 and U.S. 74, while conservation efforts will focus on the outer ...

Knox County's new 20-year growth plan needs two more rounds of voting before it can become a reality. The Knoxville-Knox County Planning Commission unanimously approved the Future Land Use Map by a 14 ...

Public input continues to be sought as Brown County updates its Comprehensive Land Use Plan for the first time since 1991.. Bolton & Menk, Inc. Community Planning Manager Robin Caufman said public ...