Current estimates of land-use change may be capturing only one-quarter of its true extent across the world, new research shows. The paper, published in Nature Communications, revises previous ...

KS2 Geography: Settlements. Changing land use. EVA: Get set for an exciting journey. I’ll be your guide, ‘Earth’s Virtual Assistant’. But you can call me E.V.A. Your mission is to discover how humans ...

Pressures around land use are emerging as one of the defining environmental challenges of modern times. Competition for productive and ecologically valuable land, and for the resources and services it ...

This guest post is by: Dr Clemens Schwingshackl, a climate scientist at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Dr Wolfgang A. Obermeier, an ecosystem scientist at Ludwig Maximilian University of ...

For the past few decades, satellites have been taking high definition pictures of the United Kingdom from space. The images are analysed and compared to detailed maps. Every small area is then given ...