Worldwide urban expansion causing problems
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200326124129.htm
Researchers found the trend was driven by small- and medium-sized cities, particularly in India, China, North America and Europe. Burak Güneralp, assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M, Billy Hales, a doctoral student in the same department, and colleagues from Yale University and Arizona State University examined these changes in a study published in Environmental Research Letters.
More than 60 percent of the reported urban expansion was formerly agricultural land, the researchers estimated.