People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

Discover how innovative mapping initiatives are transforming the documentation of Black history, from civil rights movements ...

The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho ...

As Google Maps celebrates the 20th anniversary of its launch in North America, new questions are arising over the way it ...

Today’s updates to the cartographic world view respond to treaties and armistices, but most importantly, they represent ...

For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the ...

In response to an executive order from President Donald Trump, Google Maps has updated its naming of the Gulf of Mexico to ...

President Trump has announced plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the 'Gulf of America.' While he can enforce this change in U.S. contexts, international bodies like the International Hydrographic ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Emeritus Ruth Kark was named the 2025 Israel Prize laureate in the fi ...

I like to imagine someone swimming in the Gulf of Mexico when Google unceremoniously renamed it to the Gulf of America. There ...