New assessment warns area the size of the USA will become too hot during extreme heat events for even healthy young humans to maintain a safe body temperature if we hit 2 degrees Celsuis above ...

An international group of scientists, led by King's College London, has revealed how continued global warming will lead to ...

Early detection of earthquakes could be vastly improved by tapping into the world's internet network with a groundbreaking new algorithm, researchers say. Fiber optic cables used for cable television, ...

As President Donald Trump's whims reverberate across the world, one particular Chicago group — globe and mapmakers — rise to meet the challenge.

The number of countries in the world does not change very often, but when it does, mapmakers (and their digital counterparts) ...

Depending on how old you are, you might remember having to pull out a paper map to find your way around a place. Back then, ...

The company said it would stick to its “longstanding practice” of showing the local official name for a geographical areas ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

A vast alien planet has blistering winds racing around its equator at nearly 30 times the speed of sound on Earth. Lisa Nortmann at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and her colleagues used ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The World Bank building in Washington, Monday, April 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) Updated [hour ...

TreeBank’s Tree Planting Day 2025 event introduced a global tree planting map for Vietnamese people to access and pin their tree planting activities, allowing Vietnamese people worldwide to ...

Researchers have used dung records to create high-resolution maps of herbivore distribution around the world. Their study, published in Nature Food, reveals a strong positive relationship between ...