Seattle knew race and income shape who goes hungry, block by block, so they mapped it. Now, a Racial and Social Equity Index guides investments in services citywide. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

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...

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...

"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...

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

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...

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...

South Carolina has 28,000 miles of streams and scientists are still discovering what lives in them. A new GIS tool models aquatic biodiversity through the year 2100—protecting species before we know everything we'd lose. #AquaticConservation #GIS www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Heritage is inseparable from place. The Abuelas Project maps the oral histories, photos, and memories that Latinx grandmothers have carried for generations—before those places disappear. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

When back-to-back hurricanes hit Tampa Bay 14 days apart, Hillsborough County's GIS team worked around the clock — powering real-time damage assessments, guiding residents to shelters, and helping secure FEMA disaster declarations. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Patagonia's endangered huemul deer were disappearing into isolated pockets. Now, thanks to Rewilding Chile, they're finding their way back—guided by maps that turn field data into action. www.esri.com/about/newsro...