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, 2025Prof. 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, 2025Prof. 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, 2024Prof. 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, 2024According 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, 2024A 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, 2024China'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, 2024Prof. 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, 2024Researchers 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, 2024A book entitled Regional Development and Its Spatial Structure was published by Springer. This book describes the progress and prominent theories of regional development research in the past decades, especially in the past decade, discusses the industri...
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