The federally funded project was three years in the making. It includes 559 avalanches that have caused a total of 1,063 ...

Eric Sanderson spent the night as remnants of Hurricane Ida arrived over New York City in the same, sorry way as so many others. He waded through the flooded basement of his home on City Island in the ...

Collecting historic maps is my primary obsession. I got started at the University of Arkansas when working on my master's thesis by preparing a series of surface geologic maps of the Keefer Mountain ...

Thousands of evacuations, dozens of dramatic emergency rescues and major road closures are ongoing as Washington state combats major flooding in at least 16 of its 39 counties.

Portions of western Washington state have experienced a month’s worth of rain within the last few days, causing historic ...

Indiana’s rejection of a White House-led push to redistrict the state ahead of next year’s midterm elections has thrown a wrench into Republicans’ efforts.

UVA doctoral student Musa Kazim Azimli uses spatial storytelling to reconstruct an Ottoman Empire slave market.

Ever wondered what your hometown looked like centuries ago? Thanks to a hidden feature in Google Earth, you can now step back ...

Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

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

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A historical map from the 1700s was stolen more than a decade ago and later found here in New Mexico. On Tuesday, the FBI returned it to its rightful owner, the Mexican ...