Bengaluru, July 9 -- Bengaluru's rapid urbanisation has left little room for nature, with built-up areas now occupying a staggering 87.6 per cent of the city. Over the last ten years alone, concrete coverage has jumped by 10 per cent, reshaping the city's climate and quality of life in the process, The New Indian Express reported.

A new study titled Urban Heat Island Linkages with the Landscape Morphology, conducted by the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has painted a worrying picture. The city's dwindling green and blue spaces - trees and lakes - now account for just 12 per cent of its surface, triggering a domino effect: rising local temperatures, more greenhouse gas emissions, and a sharp incr...