National City is one step closer to seeing a more vibrant and accessible bayfront. On Thursday, the California Coastal Commission approved changes to a land use plan needed to implement the decades-in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The long, gradual implementation of Arcata’s Gateway Plan has begun.

From California’s farmland conservation to Utah’s massive data center deal, multiple states advanced major land use decisions on April 30, 2026. These moves, ranging from urban redevelopment overrides ...