A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.

Wildfires have recently spread across Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Tunisia and Canada, causing mass environmental and economic damage as well as human casualties. Scientists have warned ...

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians. The ...

NASA shared striking views of nearly all of Earth's water in new maps of the planet's global sea levels. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

For most people, Aug. 2, 2023 has been a day that's gone largely unremarked upon. But for the planet as a whole, it was a very big—and very bad—date. Aug. 2 marked this year’s so-called Earth ...

Through Google Earth, this video maps the wide-ranging conflict of the War of Austrian Succession (1740–1748). It traces the ...