Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift between Greenland and North America. Its slow southward journey reveals that ancient tectonic events still influence the ...

Relations between the U.S. and Denmark have been strained since President Trump revived talk of wresting control of Greenland ...

A century-old North Atlantic cold patch is now linked to a long-term slowdown in the AMOC, the climate-regulating conveyor ...

Deep beneath the eastern United States, a band of unexpected heat is rising through the crust, quietly reshaping how ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions suggest.

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and North America 80 million years ago. Researchers suggest this slow-moving ...

A rare stratospheric event and La Niña could unleash early cold and snow across North America and Europe this December.

A federal court in North Carolina is allowing the state to use a new Republican-drawn congressional map that would help the GOP pick up another seat in the House during next year's midterm elections.

The find provides a rare opportunity to examine processes similar to those that shaped the Earth in its early days – and ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.