Scientists have created the most detailed global map of Earth’s sand dunes ever produced, revealing how wind, climate, and ...

A new study from Monash University has delivered the most complete and accurate digital map of Earth's windblown sand dunes ...

A new study on functional biosphere integrity, or the plant kingdom's ability to co-regulate the state of the ecosystem, found that Earth is in trouble—big trouble. Published in the renowned journal ...

In an effort to enhance the educational outreach of Starlink constellation, an interactive global map of SpaceX Starlink internet satellites provides live coverage of every satellite in orbit around ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

The most detailed portraits ever of the Earth’s land surface have been created with ESA’s Envisat environmental satellite. The portraits are the first products produced as part of the ESA-initiated ...

People have always put huge trust in the technology used to create maps, from the ancient Greek dioptra to modern satellites.

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...

Fungi are living below your feet. Roughly 110 quadrillion kilometers of living fungal threads are woven through the world’s soils. Stretched end-to-end they would cover a distance nearly a billion ...