This weekend the community will remember its dead on the 100th anniversary of the tragedy. Three academics have warned it ...

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, near the border with Brazil, a striking landform has stirred scientific curiosity and cultural ...

For more than two decades, the mission of homeland security has been defined by its geography, by borders, perimeters, and zones of protection. From the aftermath of 9/11 to the present-day challenges ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to change the world—but other maps wound up stirring up quite a bit of drama. We ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share the ...

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced an excruciatingly delicate task. Although he had promised—and campaigned on—a policy of American neutrality in World War II the year before, Roosevelt ...

Donald Trump may be president, but that doesn’t mean you want him as the navigator on a road trip. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images That’s because the president made a claim about the Middle East on ...

What are latitude and longitude? Discover how people use imaginary lines called latitude and longitude to help locate where a place is in the world. What are time zones? Discover that when it's ...

Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean in the centre. From space, the Earth looks like a sphere or a ball. About two thirds of the surface is covered with water, and the rest is covered ...

Abstract: This paper presents a study towards machine generation of landform maps from optical remote sensing data. Our approach uses an offline trained multilayer perceptron (MLP) as a classifier, ...

Less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S. troops—with support from British, Canadian, French, German and Australian forces—invaded Afghanistan to fight Al ...