» ⅓ of Rafah’s Buildings Destroyed
19/04/24 05:18 from Google Maps Mania
Bloomberg has analysed satellite imagery of the Palestinian city of Rafah and determined that Israel has damaged or destroyed about 32% of the region's buildings.In How the Israel-Hamas War has Reshaped Rafah in Gaza Bloomberg presents a...

» The American Home Values Map
18/04/24 07:04 from Google Maps Mania
Home Values in America is a dot density map showing the self-reported value of homes across the whole United States.The map shows home values across the United States using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2018-2022  American Comm...

» Global study reveals health impacts of airborne trace elements
17/04/24 22:27 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers investigated global particulate matter, revealing health risks from trace elements.

» Ice age climate analysis reduces worst-case warming expected from rising CO2
17/04/24 22:27 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
A detailed reconstruction of climate during the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North America was covered in ice, provides information on the relationship between CO2 and global temperature. Results show that while most future...

» 38 trillion dollars in damages each year: World economy already committed to income reduction of 19 % due to climate change
17/04/24 17:11 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19% until 2050 due to climate change, a new study finds. These damages are six times larger than the m...

» Substantial global cost of climate inaction
17/04/24 17:11 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Pioneering study reveals that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could reduce the global economic costs of climate change by two thirds. If warming continues to 3 degrees Celsius, global GDP will decrease by up to 10 percent ...

» Paradox of extreme cold events in a warming world
17/04/24 17:10 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
The Warm Arctic-Cold Continent (WACC) phenomenon is the puzzling combination of Arctic warming and extreme coldness in specific mid-latitude regions. However, the progression of WACC events remains unclear amidst global warming. Scientis...

» The 2024 Cicadapocalypse
17/04/24 07:21 from Google Maps Mania
2024 is set to see the emergence of two large periodical cicada broods. Both Brood XIX (13-year cicada) and Brood XIII (17-year cicada), are expected to emerge together in 2024 for the first time since 1803. This double emergence ha...

» Huge database gives insight into salmon patterns at sea
17/04/24 01:46 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
A massive new analysis of high seas salmon surveys is enhancing the understanding of salmon ecology, adding details about where various species congregate in the North Pacific Ocean and their different temperature tolerances. The project...

» Fires pose growing worldwide threat to wildland-urban interface
17/04/24 01:42 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Fires that devastate wildland-urban interface areas are becoming more common around the globe, a trend that is likely to continue for at least the next two decades, new research finds. Such fires are especially dangerous, both because th...

» Plastic pollution can kill variety of ocean embryos
16/04/24 16:53 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows.

» Yellowstone Lake ice cover unchanged despite warming climate
16/04/24 16:53 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
While most lakes around the world are experiencing shorter durations of ice cover, the length of time that Yellowstone Lake is covered by ice each year has not changed in the past century, possibly due to increased snowfall.

» Most countries struggle to meet climate pledges from 2009
16/04/24 15:59 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Nineteen out of 34 countries surveyed failed to fully meet their 2020 climate commitments set 15 years ago in Copenhagen, according to a new study by UCL researchers.

» Backdrop - the Ultimate Challenge
16/04/24 14:44 from Google Maps Mania
Backdrop Backdrop is a map based game which is somewhat similar to the very popular GeoGuessr game. However in Backdrop instead of Google Maps Street View images you have to identify the locations depicted in famous paintings by some of ...

» Spikkin Scots
16/04/24 06:28 from Google Maps Mania
The Shetland Dialect map allows you to listen to examples of the Shetland Dialect spoken across the Shetland Isles. The Shetland Isles are the northernmost region of the United Kingdom, Shetland, positioned between Orkney, the Faroe...

» Hidden threat: Global underground infrastructure vulnerable to sea-level rise
15/04/24 20:37 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
As sea levels rise, coastal groundwater is lifted closer to the ground surface while also becoming saltier and more corrosive. A recent study compiled research from experts worldwide showing that in cities where there are complex network...

» GeoAI technologies for sustainable urban development
15/04/24 20:35 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
From heatwaves to pandemic diseases, the urban environments of the world face numerous challenges. Researchers are harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and informatics to address emerging concerns related to environmental changes and ...

» GeoGuessr for Art
15/04/24 18:15 from Google Maps Mania
Calling all art sleuths and geography buffs! There's a new game in town that will test your knowledge of both the artistic and the actual world. Buckle up, because Backdrop is here to take you on a virtual journey through the works of th...

» New radar analysis method can improve winter river safety
15/04/24 15:04 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a way to use radar to detect open water zones and other changes in Alaska's frozen rivers in the early winter. The approach can be automated to provide current hazard maps and is applicable across the Arctic an...

» The AI Music Map
13/04/24 08:23 from Google Maps Mania
Over the last few days my Twitter feed has been lit up by people sharing the songs that they have created on Udio. For the one or two cave dwellers out there who have only just installed spelunking wi-fi, Udio is an AI-powered music gene...

» Where have all the right whales gone?
12/04/24 16:54 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Marine researchers have mapped the density of one of the most endangered large whale species worldwide, the North Atlantic right whale, using new data to help avoid right whales' harmful exposure to commercial fisheries and vessel strike...

» Retention ponds can deliver a substantial reduction in tire particle pollution
12/04/24 15:34 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
New research has shown that the presence of wetlands and retention ponds alongside major highways led to an average reduction of almost 75% in the mass of tire wear particles being discharged to aquatic waters. The researchers say that w...

» Oceanographers uncover the vital role of mixing down of oxygen in sustaining deep sea health
12/04/24 15:33 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Oceanographers have shown for the first time the important role of the 'mixing down' of oxygen in maintaining healthy conditions in the deep waters.

» Africa's iconic flamingos threatened by rising lake levels
12/04/24 15:30 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
It is one of the world's most spectacular sights -- huge flocks or 'flamboyances' of flamingos around East Africa's lakes -- as seen in the film Out of Africa or David Attenborough's A Perfect Planet. But new research has revealed how th...

» The 2024 Submarine Cable Map
12/04/24 06:36 from Google Maps Mania
Every year the telecommunications company Telegeography releases a new, updated version of its Submarine Cable map. This map shows all the undersea telecommunication cables which carry data around the world.The 2024 Submarine Cable Map i...

» Ocean currents threaten to collapse Antarctic ice shelves
11/04/24 17:02 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels.

» Cloud engineering could be more effective 'painkiller' for global warming than previously thought
11/04/24 17:02 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Cloud 'engineering' could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought, because of the increased cloud cover produced, new research shows.

» Mapped: 33 new big game migrations across American West
11/04/24 17:01 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
A new set of maps that document the movements of ungulates was published today in the fourth volume of the Ungulate Migrations of the Western United States. The maps in this collaborative report series reveal the migration routes and cri...

» Mapping Conflicts Around the World
11/04/24 07:37 from Google Maps Mania
In 2024 the specter of military conflicts haunts the world. Israel is engaged in conflict in Gaza, Russia continues its illegal invasion of Ukraine and the Syrian civil war is now in its thirteenth year. It should be a matter of extreme ...

» Pacific cities much older than previously thought
11/04/24 03:42 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
New evidence of one of the first cities in the Pacific shows they were established much earlier than previously thought, according to new research. The study used aerial laser scanning to map archaeological sites on the island of Tongata...

» Microplastic 'hotspots' identified in Long Island Sound
10/04/24 15:26 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Forensic and environmental experts have teamed up to develop a new scientific method to pinpoint microplastic pollution 'hotspots' in open waters.

» Deforestation harms biodiversity of the Amazon's perfume-loving orchid bees
10/04/24 15:26 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rond nia, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of biodiversity in the neo...

» New approach needed to save Australia's non-perennial rivers
10/04/24 15:24 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
An extensive review of current research incorporating geomorphology, hydrology, biogeochemistry, ecology and Indigenous knowledges identifies prevailing factors that shape water and energy flows in Australia's non-perennial rivers -- but...

» Canada's Hidden Subterranean Rivers
10/04/24 08:35 from Google Maps Mania
Canadian cities, like many cities around the world, have a history of hiding waterways underground. As cities grow rivers can become obstacles to the movement of people, can be seen as wasted real-estate, and historically (when cities ha...

» Tiny plastic particles are found everywhere
09/04/24 16:40 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Microplastic particles can be found in the most remote ocean regions on earth. In Antarctica, pollution levels are even higher than previously assumed.

» Impact of climate change on marine life much bigger than previously known
09/04/24 16:40 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Fish and invertebrate animals are far more affected by warmer and more acidic seawater than was previously known. The big gain of the new method is that more details become known about effects of climate change on species.

» Humans converted at least 250,000 acres of estuaries to cities, farms in last 35 years
09/04/24 16:39 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Worldwide over the past 35 years, dams and land reclamation activities converted 250,000 acres of estuary -- an area roughly 17 times the size of Manhattan -- to urban land or agricultural fields, with most land conversion and estuary lo...

» 15 Minute US Cities
09/04/24 07:59 from Google Maps Mania
The idea of the 15 Minute City is that urban living is much more enjoyable and sustainable when all our essential needs are close by. These essential needs include such things as grocery stores, health care facilities, cultural attractio...

» Atmospheric and economic drivers of global air pollution
08/04/24 22:38 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Carbon monoxide emissions from industrial production have serious consequences for human health and are a strong indicator of overall air pollution levels. Many countries aim to reduce their emissions, but they cannot control air flows o...

» How climate change will impact food production and financial institutions
08/04/24 19:05 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries increasingly prone to climate catastrophes.

» Deep parts of Great Barrier Reef 'insulated' from global warming -- for now
08/04/24 19:04 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Some deeper areas of the Great Barrier Reef are insulated from harmful heatwaves -- but that protection will be lost if global warming continues, according to new research.

» Boreal forest and tundra regions worst hit over next 500 years of climate change, study shows
08/04/24 17:08 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Modelling climate change over a 500 year period shows that much of the boreal forest, the Earth's northernmost forests and most significant provider of carbon storage and clean water, could be seriously impacted, along with tundra region...

» Climate change threatens Antarctic meteorites
08/04/24 17:06 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
Antarctica harbors a large concentration of meteorites imbuing the icy continent with an unparalleled wealth of information on our solar system. However, these precious meteorites are rapidly disappearing from the ice sheet surface due t...

» Live from the Sundhnúkur Eruption
08/04/24 07:08 from Google Maps Mania
The Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland has been experiencing a period of heightened volcanic activity since December 2023. This follows an increase in seismic activity that began in late 2019. The most recent eruption started on March 1...

» The D-Day Memorial Map
06/04/24 06:52 from Google Maps Mania
KilRoyTrip is an interactive map of World War II memorials in Normandy. It provides a fantastic guide to anyone visiting the region who is interested in the D-Day landings and the liberation of France.The Allied invasion of Normandy on D...

» Ocean waves propel PFAS back to land
06/04/24 03:18 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
A new study reveals that PFAS re-emit into the air from crashing ocean waves at levels comparable to or greater than other sources, establishing a cyclical transport process for these 'forever chemicals' between land and sea.

» Heat stress from ocean warming harms octopus vision
05/04/24 17:04 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
While climate change has led to an increase in the abundance of octopuses, heat stress from projected ocean warming could impair their vision and impact the survivability of the species.

» Four in five bird species cannot tolerate intense human pressures
05/04/24 17:04 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
In a recent study, researchers found that 78% of the world's bird species do not thrive in the most modified human-dominated environments. These species are also most likely to have declining populations.

» The US Foreign Assistance Map
05/04/24 09:16 from Google Maps Mania
The US government's Foreign Assistance website provides detailed information and data on U.S. foreign assistance programs. The website serves as a central platform for transparency and accountability in U.S. foreign aid efforts. It also ...

» Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution
04/04/24 23:08 from Geography News -- ScienceDaily
New science has taken a deep dive into plastic waste, providing the first estimate of how much ends up on the sea floor.