The largest migration movement that mankind has ever experienced is in full swing. Across the globe, the population flow is moving from the countryside to the cities. This and many other factors cause our cities to grow, restructure, force them to adapt and much more....

Researchers from the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Department of Geography of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn and our Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) of our...

Researchers from the Department of Remote Sensing (University of Würzburg); the Department of Ecological Services, BayCEER (University of Bayreuth); the German Remote Sensing Data Center, DLR (Wessling); the Department of Applied Computer Science (University of...

Researchers from the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), the Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Department of Sociology and Social Psychology (DSS) of the University of Cologne, the Demographic Research Centre of the...

How Cities Worldwide Can Adapt to Heat We examined in a study published in Scientific Reports how the world's 1,563 largest cities will be affected by rising temperatures in the future – and how well they can adapt. For the first time, we combined globally...