This week brings new releases from Joy Williams, Simon Winchester and Tracy K. Smith, among other talented writers.

Perspective is everything, but these curious maps might give a whole new approach to the weird and wonderful world that we ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management ...

A new system could overhaul maps that misclassify hundreds of thousands of smallholder coffee and cacao farmers as working in ...

A new study details the loggerheads’ ability to “map” their position by using the Earth’s magnetic field, with possible ...

Satellites are transforming climate adaptation by offering global, long-term data that reveals whether resilience efforts are ...

The satellite photo said to show victims of a massacre in Sudan turns out to depict livestock near a watering site.

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

Does it sometimes seem like every single inch of Earth has been discovered? Far from it. But scientists are working on it.