Temperature extremes with altered characteristics are one of the most threatening impacts of global warming. However, how their characteristics have changed is uncertain, and varies by region. A research article recently published in Communications Earth & Environment, a journal from Nature Research, provided for the first time a panoramic view of global patterns and trends of Temperature Extreme Events (TEEs) with both heat and cold extremes considered, of heat vs. cold extremes, and of compound TEEs.

The "Digital Earth" entry was published by Oxford Bibliographies Online on March 23, 2022.The “Digital Earth” entry is authored by Prof. GUO Huadong , LIU Zhen, and WANG Changlin from the International Society for Digital Earth, which was founded in Beijing China in 2006 to promote academic exchange, S&T innovation, education, and international collaboration towards Digital Earth.

A research team led by Prof. DI Kaichang from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and collaborators have established an evolution model with simple craters in the Chang'e-4 landing area. The research results reveal the evolution process of lunar regolith and quantifies the overturning and mixing effect of small simple impact events on lunar regolith.

Several cold waves swept across most parts of China since November 2021, causing record-hit snowfall and plummeting temperature. A research team led by Dr. QIU Yubao from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with the National Disaster Reduction Center of China, provided remote sensing service on snow and ice as an emergency management approach for the occurrences of snow in northern China, as well as the snow and freezing rain in southern China from November 2021 to the end of February 2022.

Beijing, as the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, has seen continuous blue skies greeting Olympic athletes last and this month.

A research team led by the scientists from the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science under the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences has found, in their study to estimate the forest canopy covers in northeastern China, the underestimation of about 20% of forest canopy covers may exist in three well-known global maps.