Many landscapes in the tropics consist of a mosaic of different types of land use. How people make use of these different ecosystems, with their particular plant communities, was unclear until now.

Gov. Jared Polis and influential Democrats want to open up large swaths of Colorado’s cities to denser development and make fundamental changes to how growth happens in Colorado. The bill, which is ...

Changes to land use can directly heighten the risk of diseases spreading from animals to humans, new University of ...

Section of the world map focussing on Africa. Many coloured dots mark the location and type of different forms of land use after deforestation. Africa's forested areas – an estimated 14 % of the ...

Nine years ago, state lawmakers set up a test. The question was whether giving slack for rules around a pillar of Oregon’s land use system — the urban growth boundary — could provide a new tool for ...