The 510-year-old map is the first to name America. A world map in the form of a set of gores for a terrestrial globe, from 1507 by cartographer Martin Waldseemueller is displayed at Christie's auction ...
The notion that climate change could do more than just warm our planet or bring more intense storms might seem like science fiction, but a growing consensus among climatologists, geologists, and ...
A University of Oklahoma student plotted every U.S. hurricane landfall since 1851, totaling 307. The mid-Atlantic region, particularly around Washington D.C., has seen very few direct hurricane ...