Esri released a 2020 global land-cover map last year as well as a high-resolution 2050 global land-cover map, showing how earth's land surfaces might look 30 years from now.

REDLANDS, Calif., July 10, 2023 — Land-use/Land-cover (LULC) maps contextualize and quantify the impacts of earth processes and human activity on the environment. Organizations around the world are ...

The researchers also used past land-use data to create maps showing how agriculture has spread over the centuries. In 1700, for example, just 7 percent of the world's land was used for farming.

Native-Land.ca, the interactive map, was created in 2015 by Victor Temprano, “a settler hailing from Okanagan territory,” according to the non-profit’s website. The non-profit was ...