We all know what a winding blue line on a map means, but until we this cartographer’s work we had no idea a little color could transform the world’s rivers into amazing art. View this post on ...

What’s the difference between a place with patchy shrubs and a lush, wooded forest on Google Maps? In the past, the answer was nothing, they were both the same color of green. Now, Google Maps will be ...

Beeler kneels down in an unseasonably snowy conifer grove on this October day and the enthusiasm in her voice sounds like she’s found gold nuggets on the forest floor. Poking out just above the chilly ...

For our third annual list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places, we turned the cover into an illustrative world map by a London-based mapmaker Katherine Baxter. Baxter spent four weeks producing the ...

The world’s changed a lot over the last quarter century. In fact, 22 percent of our planet’s livable surface has changed dramatically between the years 1992 and 2015, according to a new study ...