New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

Throughout the course of their lives, humans are known to build social ties with various other individuals in their community ...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Google Earth, you can now go back in time when scrolling with a handy 'Historical ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't ...

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

but in 2024 settled on the Equal Earth map. “The World Bank Group is committed to ensuring accurate representation of all people, on all platforms,” a spokesperson told Al Jazeera. Progress is slow ...

Cuts made by the Trump administration are threatening the function of a tiny but crucial office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that maintains the US’s framework of ...

The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT have assessed the most commonly used maps for environmental compliance.

One of the foundational components of Google Maps is its use of satellite imagery. High-resolution images from satellites provide a bird’s-eye view of the world, allowing Google to map streets ...