🌐 Mapping how fast the world’s cities are sinking

How hurricanes hit local economies in real time, and Google’s geospatial reasoning agent put to the test

Nov 11

3

October 2026

🌐 How mobile internet raises household wealth

PLUS: How well NASA's harmonised Landsat-Sentinel product lines up with MODIS, and pinpointing sowing and harvest dates with Sentinel-1

Oct 27

2

🌐 A third of the world’s mines sit in conservation hotspots

PLUS: How El Niño changes the impact of food price spikes, and why fire danger needs an hourly view

Oct 21

5

🌐 Testing whether poverty maps find the poorest places

PLUS: A location embedding you can zoom in and out of, and where global warming has sped up since 1970

Oct 14

5

🌐 Estimating living standards in displacement settings from space

PLUS: Synchronised global heat is at a 1,000-year high, Central Africa’s forests are losing carbon, and more.

Oct 6

2

September 2026

🌐 Why weather forecasts are worse in poorer countries

PLUS: Measuring the Roman Empire’s road network, the overconfidence of geospatial foundation models, and more.

Sep 29

7

1

🌐 How to turn a machine learning model into a map

PLUS: mapping informal settlements with radar texture, ESA’s head-to-head of two Earth observation foundation models, and more.

Sep 23

4

🌐 Estimating neighbourhood income from Google Maps pins

PLUS: how canals are cooling British cities, mapping wildfire risk with AlphaEarth embeddings, and more.

Sep 2

3

August 2026

🌐 Google’s AI can now forecast cyclones a day earlier

PLUS: what climate change will do to mobile phone networks, challenges of using foundation models, and more.

Aug 26

6

1

🌐 Self-playing AI masters geospatial reasoning without human labels

PLUS: Using embeddings for field-scale crop mapping, generating alternative urban streetscapes with diffusion models and more.

Aug 12

2

🌐 A new way of measuring urban food security

PLUS: interpretable deep learning for crop yield prediction, rethinking spatial mobility across Europe, and more.

Aug 5

2

July 2026

🌐 Rethinking population mapping

PLUS: Eliminating manual annotations, a smarter way to model mobility, and more.

Jul 29

7

2