Lula da Silva defended the map, stating, “The Earth is round. Our perspective matters.” Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world ...

Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was a challenge for early cartographers. So, a Flemish geographer and cartographer named Gerardus Mercator came up with a solution for the most ...

The first global maps of Pluto and its moon Charon are now available, putting a bookend on NASA’s New Horizons mission. “From a completionist’s point of view, they are all the good data we ...

A team has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world.

New maps show what flew under the radar until now. ... A new study uses deep learning and satellite imagery to create the first global map of vessel traffic and offshore infrastructure.

UD study creates global maps to show changes in irrigation across the planet. Of all the ways that humans consume water, there is no practice that uses more water than irrigation, which accounts for ...

A local solar eclipse map zooms in to show the local circumstances of the eclipse for a given region. While global maps are useful as an overview, local maps are essential in finding an exact ...