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Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01796-y Modelling with artificial-intelligence tools has filled gaps in migration data, revealing detailed global population movements from 1990 to 2023.

From the air, you see it only through the constant jolt, tilt, and shudder of the low-flying Cessna aircraft. The landscape of the Llanos de Moxos, northern Bolivia, appears as a disconnected patchwork of open grassland savannahs, forest islands, and lakes. It feels random, almost unreadable. Only gradually does the pattern resolve itself: raised causeways […] The post An ancient Amazonian world …

World territories have been redrawn so that a region is determined by the closest capital city. This is calculated using a spherical Voronoi diagram, which takes into account the curvature of the Earth when computing distances. See also United States of Voronoi.

This article details an interactive narrative exhibit developed for the 2024 Futuro Remoto science festival in Naples, Italy. The exhibit was designed to explore people’s relationship with risk and how they translate awareness into concrete actions. The approximately 200 participants in the workshop represented a community uniquely sensitized to volcanic risk, having recently experienced a prolon…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 06 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07736-5 Perspectives on Arctic security: an analysis of strategies, presence, and capabilities from ten Arctic and non-Arctic countries

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 06 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07867-9 Exploring the driving mechanism and scenario prediction of the spatialtemporal pattern of resilience of urban agglomerations in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River

Introduction Selecting an appropriate location for healthcare infrastructure is an important task in urban and regional planning. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide powerful spatial analysis tools that help planners identify suitable locations based on multiple criteria. This project demonstrates a Hospital Suitability Analysis workflow developed using QGIS. The objective of the study i…

Tehran's average Route Factor is 1.52, meaning trips between its 22 districts are about 52% longer than direct distances. While indicating moderate network efficiency, this highlights important planning challenges related to air pollution, car dependence, and fragmented land use.

Tehran’s sprawl is not only outward growth. Our study combines satellite and municipal land-use data to reveal low-density peripheral expansion, weak land-use mixing, longer trips, and rising air-pollution pressure.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 30 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07781-0 Spatial distribution and driving factors of bronze drums in Hechi, Guangxi: a comprehensive approach based on spatial econometrics and statistical modelling

Often overlooked by Western policymakers, Madagascar holds major critical mineral reserves and sits astride key maritime routes. As Russia deepens ties, the United States can’t afford to cede strategic ground. The post The race for Madagascar has already started appeared first on Atlantic Council .

Increasingly strengthened impact and pressure of population growth on land for nature (LN) seriously interferes with ecological balance. Clarifying the relationship between population increase and LN, either conflict or coordination, is of great significance to regional sustainable development. Although a large number of previous studies have explored the relationship between socioeconomic system…

Shoppers in urban areas remain more reliant on home delivery than rural households, according to new research.

Before Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took his great big American road trip, Mikah Meyer did it first.  Meyer is a travel writer and blogger. In 2019, he became the first person to visit all of the National Park Service sites in a single journey — over 400 in total. The full list includes national monuments, […]

As former Soviet Republic goes to the polls, it finds itself in a strategic tug of war between Russia, the US, Turkey, Europe and Azerbaijan To describe Yerevan, a charming city of liberal values encased in imposing Soviet architecture, as the centre of the world is a stretch, but Armenia’s claim that it can become the strategic crossroads of the landmass of Eurasia is becoming less and less fanc…

_Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences_ 23 (1):5-21. 2020Geography has received great attention since the 19th century. Kant established it as a discipline which resulted in the development of geographical equipment. Consequently, surveying projects were launched in England. This paper argues that Friel’s Translations depicts the extinction of the Irish culture, done by the Army’s impl…

Nature Communications, Published online: 21 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73288-6 Using large-scale data on seven mobility types across Europe, this study moves beyond permanent migration to reveal how regional characteristics shape diverse forms of movement and to inform more targeted regional policy.

By Frederic Hanusch, Justus Liebig University Giessen After the global Human geography has been one of the central fields for understanding globalisation. It has shown that space is not a neutral container but is produced through power, movement, labour, technology, memory, imagination and material life. Yet the present moment suggests that the language of the […]

Data lays bare the extent and geographical spread of attacks in Africa’s most populous country Data from Acled and the Global Terrorism Index shows that after a few years of improvement, insecurity in Nigeria has worsened. With general elections less than a year away, the crisis has come under increasing scrutiny – both abroad and at home. Experts say the primary long-term driver of insecurity is…