Did you know that the world looks different depending on where you are? Maps, as commonly seen in textbooks and online, are ...

See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that.

The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience the world around us.

Data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite will be added to the atlas in December. Over the previous seven years, data from the World Fire Atlas show a substantial number of fires detected in ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...

Recent headlines have drawn attention to naming conventions and mapping technology. But maps have always been political, ...

Science | January 10, 2024. These Entrancing Maps Capture Where the World’s Rivers Go. Cartographer Robert Szucs uses satellite data to make stunning art that shows which oceans waterways empty into ...

FAO. Africa's forest cover is estimated at 650 million hectares or 17 percent of the world's forests. The major forest types are dry tropical forests in the Sahel, Eastern and Southern Africa ...

New research on the geology of Zealandia is revealing how it formed – and why it sank In 1820, a Russian ship packed with sailors and, oddly, penguins – destined for the men's dinner ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...