The US Forest Service's National Forests and Grasslands app carries all 165,000 miles of trails, real-time fire and closure alerts, and offline maps for off-grid areas. Built on the same authoritative data employees update daily. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

A GIS map made an invisible investment pattern visible. Corporate buyers now hold nearly one in eleven residential parcels in the US, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy traced exactly where. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

6,400 acres of pasture, rangeland, cornfields, and feedlot: Texas A&M is turning its McGregor Research Center into a proving ground for cattle tech — testing tools against real wind, dust, and 1,000 head running the full cattle cycle. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

In North Carolina's Outer Banks, 20 homes in Buxton have gone into the Atlantic since Sept. 2025. GIS analyst Kristen Stilson keeps watch with a drone, turning each flight into a swipeable record of the shrinking coast. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

426 chimpanzees, counted for the first time in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, living alongside mountain gorillas is a discovery that reshapes how the park will be protected. Fitting news for #WorldChimpanzeeDay, 66 years after Jane Goodall first walked into Gombe. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Every wake a sailor leaves is full of ocean life invisible to the eye. eDNA sampling catches the genetic traces. GIS catches the location. Together they turn a solo crossing into a living map of Pacific Ocean life, built one boat journey at a time. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Crowdsourcing Ocean Research: How Sailors Are Filling a Gap for Science

Volunteer sailors are mapping Pacific Ocean biodiversity that scientists can't afford to reach—one water sample at a time.

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Freeport-McMoRan built an enterprise GIS remediation platform to document decades of contamination cleanup, cutting compliance and legal risk on sites it acquired long ago. Read how the work is tracked parcel by parcel. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

The Maya Mapping Collaborative is capturing structures in Belize in 3D and adding the knowledge of local guides to make these ancient ruins come alive. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Baltimore PD analyzed 200,000 crime records and five years of call data before moving a single district boundary. The result: a shared operational map from the chief's office to the patrol car, and crime rates that are the lowest in 50 years. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

You can't monitor what you haven't mapped. The story behind UNESCO's Sites Navigator — and the wildfires, floods, and coral bleaching it now tracks. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Smart growth takes a data-driven approach. DC planners used digital twins to thread preservation and density. Sandy Springs used maps to grow without losing what made it worth growing into. Location intelligence changes outcomes. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Ancient maps were carved in stone. To read one, you had to go there. Today's maps are live, global, and in your pocket. We've come a long way—but the oldest ones still have something to teach us. esri.com/about/newsroom/blog/carved-in-stone-built-to-change

WCS is building the S&P 500 for nature's health—a single index to measure whether conservation is winning globally. Their Impact Platform already tracks the progress of 55 countries on one map. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

900+ turbines, 500 miles of transmission line, 3,000 workers—SunZia is North America's largest renewable energy project, and a shared map became the real-time conduit for communicating complexity and coordinating construction across all of it. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

The Largest Wind Project in the Americas Required a New Way to Build

Pattern Energy’s SunZia project transformed maps from a reference tool into an operational command center.

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"Nobody's coming to save us, so we have to figure out how to save ourselves." A Jamaican nonprofit led the national drone mapping response to a catastrophic hurricane with 320 communities mapped with 300+ hours of flight time. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Bunge knows its palm oil supply chain down to the plantation and uses that knowledge to keep growers productive on existing land, forests standing, and deforestation-free sourcing verifiable for the markets that demand it. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Years Ahead of Regulation: Inside Bunge’s Traceability and Monitoring Platform

Bunge spent eight years building palm oil traceability that was ready when European Union deforestation rules arrived.

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Five Department of Interior bureaus unified under one wildland fire mission in January. The shared digital platform connecting 35,000 firefighters across every jurisdiction has been integrating workflows for a decade. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

The Florida Seafloor Mapping Initiative deployed autonomous vessels that gathered sonar data around the clock, operated remotely from shore, with no crew aboard. A GIS pipeline automated handoffs from collection to public dashboards across 8,000 miles of coastline. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Typhoon Halong hit Alaska, tore through 40 roadless villages, and triggered the state's largest mass evacuation. Winter freeze-up was coming. Drone teams spread out to capture damage. AI assessed it at a scale never tried before. 🔗 esri.com/about/newsroom/blog/two-storms-alaskas-race-to-respond

Every last Friday in April, Arbor Day asks us to plant trees. But where trees land matters as much as how many. The Arbor Day Foundation's new Forest-Water Impact Map shows where planting trees and restoring forests absorbs more water. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

The Arbor Day Foundation Reveals Where Trees Meet Water

How a new global map is guiding smarter reforestation to improve water infiltration and reduce stormwater runoff.

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OpenOceans Global is piloting its Ocean Plastic Pathways Initiative in Ecuador, tracing how plastic moves from land to sea through rivers and watersheds. Stop it upstream and you never have to clean it from the ocean floor. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

UK law now requires new development to leave nature 10 percent better off. Ordnance Survey built the data. Linckia built the tool. Wessex Water put it to work. Read how on the Esri Blog. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

The Swedish icebreaker Oden had a 1-in-5 chance of reaching Victoria Fjord. No ship had ever explored it. Marine geologists Martin Jakobsson and Larry Mayer made it—and what they found at the glacier face raised more questions than it answered. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as the strongest storm on record. 626,000 people displaced. Roads buried. Power out. Team Rubicon's response—59 volunteers, 2,221 patients treated, 90 Greyshirts clearing debris—was guided by maps the whole way. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

A flesh-eating parasite is moving north through Central America at the speed of trucks because it's traveling with illegal cattle. The origin story of the New World screwworm crisis isn't being told. Until now. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Chattanooga mapped its way to National Park City. Irvine tracks every bench and tree to stay atop park rankings. Boulder has taxed itself for greenbelt preservation eight times. Three cities, one lesson: green space is infrastructure for health, connection, and growth.. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Virginia Beach emergency managers have four CAD systems and had 14 system logins when an EF3 tornado hit during a busy weekend. They fixed that — one watch desk, every feed, one view. Read how they did it. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

On the season's biggest snow day, Jackson Hole ski patrol set charges, triggered avalanches, and logged every result before first chair—using a GIS-based system built by Earth Analytics on ArcGIS. Operational intelligence that keeps the mountain safe and open. mediaspace.esri.com/media/t/1_ae...

Jackson Hole Avalanche Risk Reduction

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort uses Earth Analytic's SmartMountain application to reduce avalanche hazard risk at the ski resort.

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The "R" in PDRF used to stand for Recovery. After Super Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation changed it—and rebuilt this network of private-sector aid around preparedness, prevention, and mitigation. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

AI researchers are racing to teach machines how the physical world works. The geospatial community has been building that foundation for fifty years, with decades of encoded knowledge that is exactly the asset the AI industry needs now. www.linkedin.com/pulse/gis-or...