Ukraine’s mineral riches have always had strategic importance in the Russia-Ukraine war — first, to Russia, and now to the ...

President Trump’s approach to foreign policy deals is reviving a bygone imperial approach that may backfire, experts say.

Shevchenko is located in Donetsk, one of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow has claimed as its own territory, an annexation ...

report released today by the World Bank reveals that South Sudan has abundant natural resources potential that can be sustainably exploited to promote inclusive economic development. The NRR report is ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the ...

Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

I’M OFTEN ASKED WHY AFRICA MATTERS. It’s an understandable question in a world of real responsibilities, real demands, and ...

Peatlands around the globe hold more carbon than all the world’s forests, and yet new research reveals a much lower ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

An international research team has used earth observation radar data to map oil pipeline networks covering a 9000 km2 region in the Niger Delta and pinpoint where crude oil spills have caused the most ...

A groundbreaking seafloor map of the Arctic Ocean reveals an area twice the size of France, part of the global Seabed 2030 project. This discovery enh ...

Synthetic materials are made from natural resources. Synthetic materials are made by chemically changing the starting substances to create a material with different characteristics. Some examples of ...