Expanding cities contribute to global warming

The USA’s expanding cities and suburbs are contributing more to global warming than previously thought, says a new study in the Royal Meteorological Society’s International Journal of Climatology.

"We found that most land-use changes, especially urbanization, result in warming," said study co-author Eugenia Kalnay of the University of Maryland.

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