A research team from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered a surprising phenomenon: despite rising sea surface temperatures, global ocean evaporation has actually decreased over t...
02 20, 2025
A Research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research found that urban vegetation greening is geographically uneven, with the Global South accounting for 36.77 percent and the Global North ...
02 18, 2025
A research team from IGSNRR, CAS and their collaborators utilized multi-source remote sensing data to construct a monthly time series of water storage changes for 105,400 lakes and reservoirs in global arid regions from 1985 to 2020 to address long-term...
01 26, 2025
Associate Prof. XU Xiangbo and Prof. ZHANG Linxiu at IGSNRR,CAS and their collaborators found the year of 2015 was a turning point for GHG emissions intensity (GEI) levels, which dropped 16% in 2020, while inequality—measured as average GHG emissions p...
01 24, 2025
Prof. SU Fenzhen's team from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences has made significant progress in environmental dynamics research using big data. Their work analyzes China's coastline restorat...
01 06, 2025
Prof. DENG Xiangzheng's team quantified China’s national and sub-national food greenhouse gas footprints from 2007 to 2017, revealing a decline in both national and provincial per capita footprints. Further studies showed that despite notable inequalit...
11 25, 2024
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is where the risk of exposure to natural hazards such as wildfire is most pronounced. Prof. WANG Jianghao’s team at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) of Chinese Academy of Sc...
11 12, 2024
According to a new study published in NATURE FOOD, researchers led by Prof. LIU Xiaojie from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Prof. YANG Yi from the College of Environment a...
10 17, 2024
Prof. WANG Jiaoe’s team at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences have made new progress in understanding how travel behavior resilience is crystallized when human mobility encounters unpreceden...
09 06, 2024
Prof. WU Chaoyang's team studied the relationship between biodiversity with the response of vegetation spring phenology to global warming using data from 393,139 forest inventory plots. This research was published in Nature Climate Change.
06 27, 2024
