Are you sitting down? The world map you’re probably most familiar with has been misleading you in a subtle but important way: many land masses appear either smaller or larger than they actually are.

scientists mapped which parts of Earth’s surface have been covered in water, and which are now dry land. The results, shown in the map above, revealed that between 1985 and 2015 around 173,000 ...

By Kristine Sabillo Researchers have released new maps documenting the “Great Nile Migration,” the Earth’s largest-known land ...

The result is that equatorial land masses like Africa ... proportioning the continents. Their map, called the Equal Earth projection, has the same size and outline as the Robinson projection ...

China last month donated to the United Nations the first open-access, high-resolution map of Earth's land cover, as a contribution towards global sustainable development and combating climate change.

Imagine a world where all the land ice on Earth melts. It might sound like a ... This isn’t just a dramatic visualization; the maps reflect plausible outcomes if current trends in global warming ...

The global impact of farming on the environment is revealed in new maps, which show that 40 percent of the Earth's land is now given over to agriculture. University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists ...

A new dataset from Google shows the features on the surface of the Earth in near real time ... imagery to develop a high-resolution land cover map that shows which bits of land have features ...

You’ve likely been taught that there are 7 continents on Earth ... are similar to topographic maps but for elevation of land under water. You can see the outline of New Zealand and while ...

and calculating the level of agreement between the four maps, they found that 21 per cent of the remaining land on Earth has very low human influence. Low human influence land – areas that aren ...

New research reveals that 44 percent of ... to map the optimal areas for conserving terrestrial species and ecosystems across the world. They further used spatially explicit land-use scenarios ...