On June 1, 2024, the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) celebrated its 20th anniversary with a grand ceremony during the Third China Digital Earth Conference. Over 1,200 experts and scholars from government, science, education, industry, and international organizations gathered to honor ISDE's contributions to global digital earth development and to showcase China's achievements in digital earth science research and technology.

On April 25, H.E. Mr. Chandramouli Ramanathan，Controller and Assistant-Secretary-General for Programme Planning, Finance and Budget in the Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance of the United Nations (UN), accompanied by another two UN officials, visited the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS) headquartered in Beijing. The two sides engaged in in-depth discussions on topics such as digital technology's role in supporting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and fostering inter-agency cooperation.

BEIJING, April 23 (Xinhua) -- A team of Chinese scientists are using artificial intelligence (AI) tech to accurately map out carbon emissions in big cities. This is an attempt that may help urban managers make more evidence-based plans in fighting global warming.

Chinese scientists have turned to science satellite SDGSAT-1 as a tool to manage the impact of modern illumination sources on the urban environment, according to a recent study. The study, conducted by scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was published recently in the International Journal of Digital Earth.

Significant changes in global land cover have occurred from 1985 to 2020, with both forest destruction and restoration accelerating, and impermeable surfaces continuing to expand, according to an annual report on global ecological and environmental remote sensing monitoring released by the National Remote Sensing Center of China on Friday.

BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- The global production of bulk grain and oil crops saw a year-on-year increase in 2023, according to the 2023 annual report on the remote-sensing monitoring of the global ecological environment, which was made public on Friday.