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
China's recent release of an action plan to boost grain conservation and curb food waste underscores the nation's commitment to addressing food security, ecological sustainability and high-quality development in agriculture and food systems, experts said.
02 07, 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
Prof. DONG Suocheng, Director of the Northeast Asia Sustainable Development Research Center at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences was invited to participate in UNCCD COP16.
12 23, 2024
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
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
A geographic sciences multi-modal LLM, the first of its kind in the world, was unveiled in Beijing on September 19. It could support the integration of geography and artificial intelligence and help accelerate geographical discoveries. The model, named ...
09 20, 2024
China's reform and opening-up have unleashed untold economic forces. China's per capita GDP of $156.8 in 1978 was significantly lower. But reform and opening-up transformed China's development landscape, with the country moving from being a planned econ...
09 09, 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
Researchers led by Prof. FU Zheng at the IGSNRR, CAS, present the results of a new approach to quantify θcrit based on the diurnal amplitude of the land surface temperature and daily soil moisture measurements during periods of consecutive days without...
06 14, 2024
