These Beautiful Maps Capture the Rivers That Pulse Through Our World
Cartographer Robert Szucs creates colorful maps of the watersheds that creep across states, countries, continents and the globe
This Map Details More Than 200 Massachusetts Sites Connected to African-American History
You can contribute to the project by suggesting new entries or proposing edits to existing ones via the project’s main hub
This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It’s Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years
The interactive tool enables users to home in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian period and the present
Drone Captures Thousands of Years of Archaeology on Remote Scottish Islands
A drone survey of Canna and Sanday Islands collected 420 million data points, creating what may be the most detailed 3-D map of islands yet
Easter Island Statues May Have Marked Sources of Fresh Water
A spatial analysis of the island’s moai and ahu seem to line up with ancient wells and coastal freshwater seeps
The ‘Pole of Inaccessibility’ Has Eluded Adventurers for More Than a Century
This winter, explorers will once again set out for the most remote part of the Arctic Ocean
New Law Puts Shetland on the Map—and Outside of a Box
Cartographers had previously been in the habit of representing the Scottish islands inside a box because they are located so far from the mainland
Scientists Can Predict When Birds Will Migrate Up to a Week in Advance
A new forecasting model using years of bird migration data and weather radar could help us protect migrating birds from harm
Citizen Scientists Show Black Widows Creeping North In Canada
Study shows online observations can help researchers refine the range maps of many species overlooked by field biologists
This New Zealand Natural Wonder Is Probably Gone for Good
A new study reconfirms that the Pink and White Terraces were destroyed by a volcano in 1886 and can’t be dug up
New Map Chronicles Three Decades of Surface Mining in Central Appalachia
The data shows about 1.5 million acres of forest have been affected by surface and mountaintop mining since the 1970s
A Research Ship Is Hunting Meteorite Fragments Off the Coast of Washington
The research ship E/V Nautilus is combing through samples and sediment hoping to recover the first space rock from the ocean floor
The Visionary John Wesley Powell Had a Plan for Developing the West, But Nobody Listened
Powell’s foresight might have prevented the 1930s dust bowl and perhaps, today’s water scarcities
Teaching Refugees How To Map Their World Could Have Huge Benefits
A pilot project trained Syrian refugees at a Jordan camp to create maps—an invaluable tool in a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis
This Is the Longest Straight-Line Ocean Path Around the Earth
But don’t go hauling your boats out just yet
Thirty-Seven Warblers in a Hundred Days
A Smithsonian ornithologist follows the songbird migration north from the Gulf of Mexico. A new book tells his story
Researchers Are Tracing Wabanaki Canoe Routes in New Brunswick
The First Nation routes were ancient “highways” that traversed rivers, creeks and streams
Google Japan Now Has Street View From a Dog’s Perspective
It’s like riding an Akita around Japan
This Newly Digitized 16th-Century Planisphere Is the Largest-Known Early Map
Explore continents, islands and unicorns with scholar Urbano Monte’s epic map that’s been digitally pieced together by Stanford’s David Rumsey Map Center
Scientist Autopsy the Aftermath of the Largest Underwater Volcanic Eruption of the Last Century
In 2012, miles of floating rock appeared in the Pacific. Now, scientists have studied the Havre seamount eruption that caused the mysterious pumice ‘raft’
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