Weighing 600 million buildings reveals global urban material inequality and efficiency paths
Yu, B. et al. Nighttime light images reveal spatial-temporal dynamics of global anthropogenic resources accumulation above ground. Environ.…
One of Earth’s Driest Deserts Just Turned White
Back-to-back winter storms brought a rare burst of snow to Chile’s Atacama Desert in August 2026, turning parts…
Study finds KSM-66 ashwagandha root extract safe in sample of more than 1,000 adults
Published in Phytotherapy Research, the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial involved 1,002 adults and concluded Ixoreal Biomed Inc’s KSM-66…
Depression risk associated with idealized sentiment toward urban places on social media
Herrman, H. et al. Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission. Lancet 399, 957–1022…
NASA Reveals the Black Sea’s Stunning Annual Turquoise Transformation
NASA’s PACE satellite captured the Black Sea glowing turquoise on June 22, 2026, as a massive bloom of…
Global dietary estimates for conducting health, environmental and economic impact assessments
Whitmee, S. et al. Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on…
Neighbourhood design and the environmental and social costs of suburbanization
Carroll, G., Heiston, P., Sweeney, J. & Williams, E. J. Demographic Trends in the 20th Century Technical Report,…
Reconstructing urban mobility from the built environment
Kraemer, M. U. G. et al. Science 368, 493–497 (2020). Article Google Scholar Brockmann, D. & Helbing, D.…
Steering open-source AI to accelerate the sustainable development goals
The 2025 AI Action Summit revealed that there are even more challenges in this area than initially anticipated…
A large-scale dataset for analysing remote working in urban and rural areas across Europe
The study received ethical approval from the German Association for Experimental Economic Research e.V. (No. KEF58hmh, https://gfew.de/ethik/KEF58hmh). We…
Assessing global sustainability performance, imbalance, and coordination over space and time
Liu, J. et al. Systems integration for global sustainability. Science 347, 1258832 (2015). Article PubMed Google Scholar World…
Global loss of mountain vegetated landscapes and its impact on biodiversity conservation
Mapping global mountain vegetated landscapes We first mapped MVL in 2000 as a base map from which to…