Researchers have completed a comprehensive online map of the world's coral reefs by using more than 2 million satellite images from across the globe. Named after late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, ...

A research team led by Prof. Liu Liangyun from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of ...

Researchers at the University of Isfahan in Iran claim to have improved the precision of digital elevation models (DEMs) in creating high-resolution annual solar energy potential maps. DEMs are 3D ...

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, topographic map of the region in almost 40 years. Created by the Mapping and ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s terrain in unprecedented detail, in what’s said to be the highest-resolution map of its kind for any continent in the world. The new map shows a much better look at ...

Much of the human genome is made of regulatory regions that control which genes are expressed at a given time within a cell. Those regulatory elements can be located near a target gene or up to 2 ...

A new high-resolution global map of forest loss and gain has been created with the help of Google Earth. The interactive online tool is publicly available and zooms in to a remarkably high level of ...