Blosm addon for Blender. A few clicks import of Google 3D cities, OpenStreetMap, terrain. Global coverage. Source code is in the branch 'release'.

I have not been to Point Nemo, though it has maintained a curious hold on me for decades. Not long ago, I set out to find the handful of people on Earth who have some sort of personal connection ...

It is now approaching its closest point to Earth. The star successfully passed close to the Sun without disintegrating at the end of September, a phenomenon known as perihelion. From October 12, its ...

The major upgrade for Apple Maps with iOS 18 is topographic hiking trails (same with iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, and macOS Sequoia). New features include detailed planning and guidance for custom hikes ...

Although deforestation in the Amazon has slowed down under the new Brazilian government, the ‘lungs of the Earth’ may still be nearing a tipping point, according to the study. Like ...

At the same time, the report also found some surprising signs of progress that experts say point to a path forward ... of a new report that checks up on Earth's 'vital signs' attributes to ...

A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance in Earth’s magnetic field caused by solar activity. There’s a reaction called nuclear fusion that occurs continuously deep within the Sun’s core.

The environments in space habitats and on the Earth are both closed-loop systems, only on vastly different scales. Imagine living in a place where your survival depends upon living within your ...

“Only recently has our survey capability reached the point of spotting them routinely.” Using a powerful telescope located in Sutherland, South Africa, the team from Complutense University detected ...

from the atmosphere grid to subgrid topographic units established in their earlier studies for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) Land Model (ELM). The work is published in the Journal ...

Researchers created a seismic map of Earth's interior beneath the southeastern Pacific Ocean and discovered an ancient slab of oceanic crust that appears to be stuck midway through the mantle.

And it is very small, at just 10 metres across. But it is one of a very few times that we have seen the Earth acquire a new temporary satellite of this kind. Doing so is both a testament to how ...