Researchers mapped exactly where buildings are in the world and how much space they take up. The result is a mind boggling ...

Using satellite data since 2019, researchers have created a map featuring nearly three billion buildings around the world.

When we take time to admire the ruins of centuries past, the buildings and homes of ancient civilizations indicate their priorities. Was religion the center of their communities, and in turn, they ...

The map is called the GlobalBuildingAtlas, and you can access it online now. Compared to previous databases of this type, such as the Microsoft Building Footprint database, it offers information on ...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2015, recognizes not only that peace and security are prerequisites for achieving ...

In 2015, the seventieth UN General Assembly adopted an ambitious set of development goals for improving economic, environmental, and social conditions worldwide by 2030. The seventeen Sustainable ...

Twenty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly declared 6 November of each year the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. Since then, ...