Climate and other environmental changes sometimes drive people to migrate, especially if the land no longer supports a population's way of life. In turn, mobile populations alter the environment in ...

More than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, a trend that's expected to expand in coming years, according to the United Nations. The urbanization movement is especially stark in ...

Immigration is fundamentally an urban phenomenon. Both in the United States and elsewhere, immigrants settle primarily in cities—especially high-wage, high cost-of-living cities. The most likely ...

Both narratives are rooted in real trends, but each capture only part of the full picture. 1. China has undergone a historic rate and scale of urbanization over the past four decades, but interpreting ...

Nigeria’s food security faces threat as younger generations increasingly turn away from farming, leaving the nation’s agricultural sector in the hands of an aging workforce and creating critical ...

Thousands of people moved to rural America last year, causing the fourth year of continual growth in rural areas, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of 2024 Census estimates. Nonmetropolitan, or ...