Starting this month, you can be part of a project to create more detailed satellite-based global maps of land cover by sharing photos of the world around you in a new NASA citizen science project.

Today, it can feel as though the world map is set in stone. After all, the United Nations hasn’t recognized a new, sovereign nation since 2011, when South Sudan broke away from Sudan. But beneath the ...

R esearchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

Esri released a 2020 global land-cover map last year as well as a high-resolution 2050 global land-cover map, showing how earth's land surfaces might look 30 years from now.

In the fascinating world of geography, borders between countries are not just lines on a map; they are symbols of history, ...

Here's why flat world maps always have distortions. Skip to main content. ... and distances between various land masses are misrepresented. "Every world map is distorted in some respect," Matthew ...

The map model, which draws satellite imagery from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2, can update its data stream for global land cover monitoring every 2 to 5 days.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has maps of major world forests. ... (or 9.6 billion acres) which is approximately 30% of the world's land surface.

Native Land’s territory boundaries started with Canada, but now cover other parts of the world: Australia, New Zealand, parts of South America, Central America, the Caribbean.

White-eared kob antelope in the Great Nile Migration Landscape are part of the world’s largest land mammal migration of 5 million to 7 million animals. Their migrations recently were mapped by Global ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East.