If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...

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

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

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

A vast, mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific, Zealandia, is now recognized as Earth's eighth continent. Recent mapping confirms its continen ...

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project aims to fix that.

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.

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 ...

There are a lot of misconceptions about the Arctic, from the whole concept of the North Pole, to the number of penguins who ...