Global population growth is concentrating in vulnerable Asian and African megacities. These urban centers face increasing ...

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

Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

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

Parts of South-East Asia have been hit by typhoons and experienced severe floods over the past weeks, causing a ...

The need for coalitions is an admission that the US isn’t powerful enough anymore. But the problem is obvious. How do you ...

Scientists in Germany have, for the first time, created the most comprehensive digital representation ...

Africa’s official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete—or both. But governments don’t have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as ...

Just north of the great Serengeti wildebeest migration, a smaller migration across the Mara ecosystem is collapsing. New maps ...

A winter storm with the potential to drop considerable snow began moving over Southeast Michigan on Saturday afternoon. Snow amounts are mainly at a minimum of around 5 inches. We expect the heaviest ...

Guinea-Bissau takeover is the latest in the Sahel region, which has quietly become global epicentre of terrorism ...

Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 ...