A database of 2.75 billion buildings could help scientists to monitor urban planning, climate change, disaster risks and even ...

Researchers mapped exactly where buildings are in the world and how much space they take up. The result is a mind boggling ...

A new satellite called Sentinel 5A has started sending back its first images, capturing fresh views of Earth's ozone hole.

Over 1,000 species of plants and almost 400 animal species thrive within the park, including several not found anywhere else ...

Using satellite data since 2019, researchers have created a map featuring nearly three billion buildings around the world.

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The basin, widely known as 'Lake Manly,' was once a vast Ice Age lake that stretched 100 miles and plunged 600 feet deep more ...

A major study shows complex cells evolved gradually in an oxygen-poor world, challenging long-held assumptions about life’s ...

Planet-warming pollution rates exploded after the end of World War II. James Watt’s steam engine launched the Industrial Revolution in 1769. Before that, for thousands of years, humans were clearing ...

A moderately strong, 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck in Colombia on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...

Guest authors explore how Greenland’s ice sheets fared over the 12 months, including the evidence that the territory’s summer ...

Both ignored that much more prevalent entity, state even, without which no map of the world has ever been complete. In every age it has been far and away the most populous place on Earth, as today.