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Each year, more than 1.5 million people attend the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. to glimpse a colorful sign of spring. But while this year's peak bloom was in line with the 96-year average, over the...

If it's cold outside, it proves global warming is false, right? That seems to be President Donald Trump's logic, according to his tweet last night. Vox found a map from the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute showing...

Earth in 250 million years won't be the planet we know and love today. Plate tectonics theory reveals how plates comprising Earth's outer shell glide atop the mantle, causing continents to drift apart or come together. Business...

Devastating wildfires have blazed through Portugal, Canada, and Siberia this summer - with some people beginning to wonder if climate change will make such destructive fires normal...

When we think of transportation in the United States, we don't always think of rivers. But according to designer Theo Rindos, the country's waterways once were and still worthy of travel. He designed a subway-style map of...

1,000 to 520 million years ago, Earth's climate was undergoing dramatic changes. From icy extremes in what some have termed Snowball Earth, to warmer conditions as an increase in oxygen led to the Cambrian explosion of biodiversity,...

You'd need around 11 years to walk around the globe - if you can walk on water. But a world map in Denmark makes the feat possible in a few minutes. Verdenskortet, or world map, is a walkable map, made of soil and stone,...

The global map on which all your geographical knowledge is based probably wasn't as accurate as you thought. For nearly 500 years, classrooms have referred to the Mercator projection, which exaggerated the size of continents...

Just about every country in the world grapples with pollution, no matter how rich or poor they are. But you may not be aware of just how toxic your locale is. The Eco Experts from the United Kingdom recently cross-referenced...

Between Norway and Iceland rests an archipelago of 18 little isles called the Faroe Islands. The residents want Google Street View, but the tech giant hasn't announced plans to visit the subarctic archipelago - so the residents...

British beachgoers on the English Channel seafront will soon be able to visit the Stargazer’s Cabin and its glowing display of constellations. The installation, designed by George King Architects, will feature backlit LED...

Metropolitan Architectural Practice (MAP) revamped an incomplete property that was started in the 1950s to create an open, modernist residence that seamlessly blends indoor and outdoor living called Telesis v2.0. The architects...

A recently published map by the National Parks Service (NPS) gives a snapshot of the average sound levels across the lower 48 U.S. states on a typical summer's day. While the map was produced as part of the NPS's work monitoring...

SkyTruth, Oceana, and Google have just announced the release of a prototype interactive map that is designed to show all of the trackable fishing activity in the ocean...

In order to have springtime success with fall-planted and overwintered vegetables, it's important to know the growing zone you live in: that's going to have a big impact on what you can and cannot grow...