If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

Laura, a retired college professor and Point Reyes National Seashore expert who spent most of her life in the Bay Area, left ...

Activists like Silva face steep risks in Colombia, the deadliest country in the world for people protecting land and forests.

Just north of the great Serengeti wildebeest migration, a smaller migration across the Mara ecosystem is collapsing. New maps ...

The speed at which glaciers move changes predictably each year, according to the first-ever global map of how glacier and ice sheet speeds vary with the seasons. Knowing this yearly rhythm could help ...

Scientists fear warming is driving a collapse in the ocean currents that shape climate far and wide. The ice-choked waters ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

What actually happened to the Hills, who are now deceased, is unknowable. But their story has turned a mile-long stretch of ...

US soil reveals uneven decomposition rates: new analysis shows carbon is released up to ten times faster in some areas.

While a photo can be worth a thousand words, historical photos are worth so much more than that. A good historical photo can ...