In recent years, free digital world maps like OpenStreetMap (OSM) have become a vital instrument to support humanitarian missions over the entire world. In disaster management as well as the ...

A global mapping project has revealed the major stressors placed upon global coastlines by human activity. A global mapping project led by University of Queensland researchers has revealed the major ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made, offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and ...

The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaboration between Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and TomTom, has released the general availability of its global open map datasets. Developers can access it for free.

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 ...

The global total of used nuclear fuel produced by nuclear power plants is about 448,000 tonnes of heavy metal, with three quarters in storage and one quarter reprocessed, according to the ...

Atmospheric rivers bring heavy rain and floods, but if they don’t come around, it could mean drought. A new global map ...

Of all the ways that humans consume water, there is no practice that uses more water than irrigation, which accounts for more than 90% of humanity’s water consumption. While irrigation is necessary to ...