There are an estimated 8.1 billion people on planet Earth. This number is projected to reach a peak of 10.3 billion by the end of the century. As the global population grows, it will not do so equally ...

Overview of the collected data in the World of Crayfish platform, and various centralisation of records of natives versus non-native (introduced status included). Freshwater crayfish, keystone species ...

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 ...

Detailed livestock models are important for land-use planning, disaster relief and food insecurity. Researchers have used dung records to create high-resolution maps of herbivore distribution around ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Tucked away in a small corner at LACMA is a new show: Common Places: Printing, Embroidery and the Art of Global Mapping. Culled together from the museum’s permanent collection, the works ...