An international research team has developed the world's first 30-meter resolution dataset to track changes in land ...

Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These contaminants – arsenic, cadmium, lead, and others – may be invisible to the eye, ...

As the global population grows, it will not do so equally everywhere. This map explores population growth—and decline.

A team of scientists from BGI-Research at Southern University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei province, and other institutions has unveiled the most detailed single-cell map of a plant ever ...

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, ...