Did you know that the world looks different depending on where you are? Maps, as commonly seen in textbooks and online, are not universal,many regions and borders are disputed, with different ...

a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world. Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only ...

True. But that isn’t the point. 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 ...

Because previous world maps depicted only Europe, Asia, and Africa, this discovery warranted a new map. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published one that included—and named ...

Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese, included wind heads—illustrations of human faces with puffed cheeks to indicate wind directions. Initially ...

In response, an upgraded version of the World Fire Atlas from the European Space Agency (ESA) is now available. The atlas provides a detailed analysis and map of wildfires across the globe. Rising ...

After several months of painstaking labor, Szucs finished sorting the world’s rivers according to their ocean drainage basins, and he has new maps to show for it. In his latest creations ...

Forests cover some 3.9 billion hectares (or 9.6 billion acres) which is approximately 30% of the world's land surface. FAO estimates that around 13 million hectares of forests were converted to ...

It also cemented the modern idea, upheld by most maps across the English-speaking world, that there are seven major landmasses. Today, schoolchildren, explorers and politicians generally accept ...

By Tomas Weber Back in 2021, a 22-year-old from Arkansas named Trevor Rainbolt shuttered himself in his Los Angeles apartment to memorize the world ... Google Maps, and find Hochstrasse, a ...