Hundreds of thousands of Sanborn maps mapped the fire risk of every US city with over 1,000 people in the 20th century.

From country outlines to continental and world maps, this geography quiz will put your map skills to the ultimate test. With ...

Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, climate philosopher, and author, most recently, of “Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress.” He teaches at the University of Notre ...

Woodrow Wilson’s speech on January 8, 1918, changed the course of U.S. foreign policy and international diplomacy.

As regular readers of this newsletter know, my primary focus over the past year has been to champion the importance of geodesy and to prepare the geospatial ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

A good book, along with an iced coffee, is all you need to feel like you’ve escaped the hustle and bustle. Here’s where to go ...

That ethos continued in 1993, when Damon and Deanne Howes headed into the wilds of south-western Tasmania (Issue 36, Oct–Dec ...

Discover many animals all around the base of the Tree of Life. Fly on the back of a mountain banshee during this 3-D ride. A ...

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) recorded 204,605 conflict events from December 1, 2024 to November 28, 2025, resulting in over 240,000 deaths, in its newly released Conflict ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

Maps are undoubtedly one of the most astonishing of humanity’s inventions a reflection of how early people conceived of their surroundings and the world outside. Long before modern maps were made, ...