How data from Google Earth helps us understand the world, and ourselves
The Next Web via AOL· 5 months agoEarth, geographical data, and how it leads to climate awareness. If you want to know more, you can...
North Korea: how public execution sites are being mapped with Google Earth satellite images
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs North Korea reignited international tensions in recent weeks with new rounds of missile tests,...
Three years after exodus, Myanmar erases names of Rohingya villages, U.N. map makers follow suit
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLast year, the government erased its name from official maps, according to the United Nations. About...
The tricky politics of mapping in the digital age
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months ago"Put Palestine back on the map," demanded Madonna after sharing screenshots of both Apple and Google’s maps with her more than 15 million followers on...
These volunteers are filling in missing pieces of the world map, and helping humanity at the same...
Bonnier via AOL· 9 months agoJust before 6 p.m., Diane Fritz comes in from the cold, passing pinball machines and pool tables on her way to the back room. Fritz works for Auraria Library in Denver, assisting people who ...
Ecosia: Eco-friendly search engine commits to planting 1bn trees in Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’
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Uighur activists say China is running nearly 500 detention camps and prisons in Xinjiang based on...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Uighur human rights group says that China has more than 500 involuntary detention centers,...
How do archaeologists know where to dig?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoGeographic magazines and Indiana Jones movies might have you picturing archaeologists excavating near Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge and Machu Picchu. It...
Maps show 500 suspected 're-education' camps and prisons where China is locking up and torturing its...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChina is waging a massive security crackdown on the Uighur Muslim ethnic minority in detention camps...
Antarctica now has more than 65,000 'meltwater lakes' as summer ice melts
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDuring the Antarctic summer, thousands of mesmerising blue lakes form around the edges of the...
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