Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at ...

A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially ...

China has a plan to build the world's largest hydropower dam, breaking its own record held by the Three Gorges Dam, but India ...

After the Rapidan Dam failed last summer and the Blue Earth River carved a new course through Minnesota Valley, researchers ...

A recent study challenges the current estimate of 8.2 billion people on Earth, suggesting a significant miscalculation due to ...

The Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer offers what experts call an unprecedented look at the world’s lakes, rivers and wetlands, ...

Andrew Brown, a senior geoarchaeologist, inspects the camera on a drone before sending it up for another flight over the Rapidan Dam on Monday. Brown and other researchers are using drone imagery to ...