From electric vehicles and wearable technology to artificial intelligence and smart cities—the modern world is becoming increasingly complex

Every year, almost 1,400 square miles of the Chinese steppes turn into barren soil and enlarge the already-inhospitable Gobi Desert.

Every year, the world’s farmers and other food producers provide a prodigious amount of food for humanity—around 4 billion metric tons.

Above the Pacific coastline in Iwate Prefecture in the northern Tohoku Region of Japan stands an ancient moss-covered stone, carved with a

Man-made islands are being built “on a scale never seen before,” Dr. Alastair Bonnett, geography professor at Newcastle University, UK,