Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more.

Twenty-eight major cities in ... in the journal Nature Cities. The study, by researchers from Virginia Tech and several other U.S. universities, used satellite data to map out vertical land ...

Some of the U.S.'s largest urban areas are showing signs of recovery after major population declines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Large cities, like New York City and Los Angeles, as well as ...