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Megacity: Beijing Quadrupled in Size in 10 Years

2015-08-17 13:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Beijing has seen explosive growth in recent years, with the physical size of the city quadrupling in just a decade, a new study reveals. Researchers used satellite data to see how much the Chinese capital has expanded, and calculated changes in the urban environment as well. Using NASA's QuikScat satellite, researchers at NASA and Stanford University looked at new roads and buildings that had been constructed in Beijing between 2000 and 2009. Then, they estimated how these urban developments impacted...

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