Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

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

A team of Germany-based researchers recently unveiled GlobalBuildingAtlas, which is likely the most detailed 3D map of ...

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

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.

On average, Africa’s tropical forests gained carbon until 2010, then lost it rapidly—especially between 2015 and 2017. Gains ...

As companies flock to Africa to secure minerals for the energy transition, unreliable and century-old mapping risks stifling ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell Medieval Christian maps showing the twelve tribes of Israel featured clear ...

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

Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), led by Professor Xiaoxiang Zhu, have published the ...

From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

Between 2010 and 2017 alone, Africa lost about 106 billion kilograms of forest biomass every year — roughly the weight of 106 million cars disappearing annually.