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Greening dominates greenspace exposure inequality in Chinese cities

Zhaowu Yu
Weiyuan Ma
Weiqi Zhou
ResearchOpen Access24 Sept 2025
npj Urban Sustainability

Volume: 5, P: 1-9
Exacerbated heat stress induced by urban browning in the Global South

This study measured urban moist heating rates in more than 2,300 cities in the Global South between 2003 and 2020 with a new dataset. It found an increase in urban moist heat of 0.41 ± 0.01 °C per decade, exacerbated by urban browning by 0.05 °C per decade in cities such as those in Nigeria.

Huilin Du
Wenfeng Zhan
Manchun Li
Research06 Jan 2025
Nature Cities

Volume: 2, P: 157-169
Underlying rules of evolutionary urban systems in Africa

Africa will drive much future urbanization. Using data from 1950–2020 and techniques from urban science, this study finds increasing economies of scale in land use and increasing concentrations of people in larger cities, contributing to broader patterns of urban evolution.

Gang Xu
Mengyan Zhu
Peng Gong
Research18 Feb 2025
Nature Cities

Volume: 2, P: 327-335
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity

The impacts of the war in Ukraine on global food systems have multiple sustainability implications that are yet to be examined. This study simulates the potential war-induced cropland expansion worldwide and presents a biodiversity impact assessment, showing the most affected countries.

Li Chai
Ao Liu
Jianguo Liu
Research01 Mar 2024
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 7, P: 432-441
Extreme surface solar ultraviolet radiation events reduce maize yields in China

Every 1% increase in extreme surface solar ultraviolet radiation events results in a 0.72% decrease in corn yield, particularly during the mid-growth phase, but high soil moisture may help mitigate this effect, according to an analysis of climate and phenology data from 1992 to 2018.

Haixiang Guan
Peng Zhu
Bingfang Wu
ResearchOpen Access10 Jun 2025
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 1-12
Human expansion into Asian highlands in the 21st Century and its effects

Most of the intensive human activities usually occur in lowlands. Here the authors report that human activity expansions also were widely distributed in Asian highlands in the 21st century and held dual effects, which provides new insights for regional human activity expansions.

Chao Yang
Huizeng Liu
Guofeng Wu
ResearchOpen Access24 Aug 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-12
High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

The world keeps urbanizing. This study finds that since 1985 global urban lands have expanded four times faster than previously recognized and faster than population is growing.

Xiaoping Liu
Yinghuai Huang
Zhenzhong Zeng
Research04 May 2020
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 3, P: 564-570
A global product of 150-m urban building height based on spaceborne lidar

Xiao Ma
Guang Zheng
Yuyu Zhou
ResearchOpen Access18 Dec 2024
Scientific Data

Volume: 11, P: 1-14
A 30-m annual corn residue coverage dataset from 2013 to 2021 in Northeast China

Yi Dong
Fu Xuan
Jiezhi Chen
ResearchOpen Access16 Feb 2024
Scientific Data

Volume: 11, P: 1-14
A harmonized global nighttime light dataset 1992–2018

Xuecao Li
Yuyu Zhou
Xia Zhao
ResearchOpen Access04 Jun 2020
Scientific Data

Volume: 7, P: 1-9
A global record of annual terrestrial Human Footprint dataset from 2000 to 2018

Haowei Mu
Xuecao Li
Mengqing Geng
ResearchOpen Access19 Apr 2022
Scientific Data

Volume: 9, P: 1-9
Global urban growth between 1870 and 2100 from integrated high resolution mapped data and urban dynamic modeling

Projected urban sprawl and environmental impacts of urbanization are greatest under a fossil-fuelled development shared socioeconomic pathway, according to global, high resolution urban cellular automata modelling.

Xuecao Li
Yuyu Zhou
Wei Chen
ResearchOpen Access29 Sept 2021
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 2, P: 1-10
A dataset of winter wheat aboveground biomass in China during 2007–2015 based on data assimilation

Hai Huang
Jianxi Huang
Wenping Yuan
ResearchOpen Access11 May 2022
Scientific Data

Volume: 9, P: 1-11
Rapid corn and soybean mapping in US Corn Belt and neighboring areas

Liheng Zhong
Le Yu
Peng Gong
ResearchOpen Access04 Nov 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-14