Ecopia, founded in 2013, specializes in using artificial intelligence to extract features from high-resolution satellite imagery and build what it calls a “digital twin of the Earth.” Its machine ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research arm, announced the release of AlphaEarth Foundations on Wednesday, a new AI model that can process terabytes of daily satellite data ...

Johnson’s Reef on the northwest shore of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands forms colorful peaks in this lidar image recorded by NASA’s Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) in ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

In 2019, the multimillionaire and explorer Victor Vescovo made headlines when he became the first person to visit the deepest parts of all five of Earth’s oceans. But arguably the real star of the ...

The map was made as part of a collaboration between the University of Hawaiʻi and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which ...