Nighttime light observations from remote sensing provide us with a timely and spatially
explicit measure of human activities, and therefore enable a host of applications such as …

Cities produce over 70% of global carbon emissions and are thus crucial in driving climate
change. Urban carbon emissions may continue to increase especially in those less …

Transformer, an attention-based encoder–decoder model, has already revolutionized the
field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some …

The nighttime light (NTL) satellite data have been widely used to investigate urbanization
process. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-Operational Linescan System …

The environmental Kuznets curve has received widespread attention from researchers and
policymakers for its ability to vividly capture the dynamics between economy and …

Land-use patterns affected carbon emissions, which were influenced by urban land-use
management in the long term. However, few studies linked carbon emissions with composite …

Urbanization has been viewed as an important factor in rapidly increasing carbon
emissions. While urbanization relates to various aspects across space and time, a …

Recent decades have witnessed rapid global urban land (UL) expansion, which has caused
severe ecological and environmental issues. As major contributors to carbon emissions …

Global warming caused by carbon emission has been recognized as a threat to public
health and welfare. Carbon emission reduction is therefore a necessary task for each …

Since the parties to Paris agreement ink ambitious emissions reduction targets, there is a
growing debate–whether the existing environmental regulations have potential to spur …