After a wildfire, rain washes away soil for years. A new study reveals massive losses and hidden risks in a global map.

Maps have always been essential tools for making sense of the world around us. From hand-drawn sketches to today’s digital systems, they visualize space, plan movement and understand places. But the ...

Accurate land cover mapping underpins biodiversity protection, climate adaptation, and sustainable land use. Despite advances in remote sensing, satellite-only approaches remain limited by cloud cover ...

As plastic pollution emerges as one of the planet’s most pressing environmental threats, Tulane University scientists have published the first global assessment of where plastics pose the greatest ...

Using more than 2.8 billion fungal sequences sampled from 130 countries, scientists map the biodiversity of Earth's underground mycorrhizal fungal communities. Scientists have released the world's ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...