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

Space-focused games like Starfield, Star Wars Outlaws, and Mass Effect: Andromeda introduce numerous hand-crafted open-world planets. The vast majority of open-world games feature a single ...

It turns out that your world map, along with every other possible map, can be completely colored using only four different colors. This is not immediately obvious.

No flat map of our round world can be perfect, of course. First you need to peel off Earth’s skin, then pin it down. This mathematical taxidermy introduces distortions.

All the World's Territorial Disputes in One Interactive Map If we could all just get along, this map wouldn't look half as good.

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point. See ...

This week FM Global, one of the largest commercial property insurers based in the U.S., released the world’s most comprehensive global earthquake risk map to date.

A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals A self-taught artist-cartographer and outdoorsman spent three years on an obsessive labor of love with few parallels.

A new global report by WWF and the marine mammal science community calls for urgent action to safeguard whales amid mounting threats along their migratory routes. Gland, Switzerland (17 February) - A ...

Oxford University Press recently published "The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History," edited by UC Irvine historian Patricia Seed. It's more than 200 pages of maps along ...

After a day of catastrophic floods along the Guadalupe River, Texas officials issued alerts for regions around the San Gabriel River on Saturday ...

Protecting Blue Corridors, released today by WWF, has for the first time, visualised the satellite tracks of 845 migratory whales worldwide. The report outlines how whales are encountering multiple ...