Lakes, rivers and wetlands naturally ebb and flow; humans divert water for their own use and dam it up into reservoirs. Now researchers have mapped millions of high-resolution satellite images to ...

More information: Min Jiang et al, A 20-year dataset (2001–2020) of global cropland water-use efficiency at 1-km grid resolution, Scientific Data (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04904-1 Provided ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a long-term, high-resolution dataset that tracks global cropland water-use ...