In the wake of devastating Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, a newly released scientific paper investigates how to trace the progress of a natural disaster through crowdsourced and tagged photographs ...

Scientists use social media -- vacation photos from Flickr -- to study how people use natural areas for tourism and recreation. Scientists affiliated with the Natural Capital Project at Stanford ...

Tapping into social media posts on Instagram, Flickr and Panoramio gave researchers a trove of information about people’s opinions of scenic European landscapes. A new study shows that geotagged ...