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Canadian government arbitrarily quintupling the social cost of carbon just as its policies are revealed to be expensive and feeble,

Today’s wildlife are in peril, facing a variety of threats that test their survivability.  To illustrate the crisis magnitude, a new Animal Endangerment Map has been presented that reflects the conservation status of globally...

It’s a full-blown modern challenge to get through even an hour of the day without using technology. So considering a tech-free trip for the entire family may seem insurmountable. While we acknowledge that there will likely...

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...

An international team of researchers have identified tens of thousands of previously unknown Mayan structures using a high-tech aerial mapping technology known as Lidar...

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...

Google has recently added 12 celestial bodies to its Google Maps application. Although armchair space travelers have been able to virtually cruise around the Moon and Mars for years, the list of planets and moons to discover...

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,...

There's still a lot the average person doesn't know about the trash clogging up our oceans. Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) scientists are tackling this public awareness crisis with LITTERBASE, a tool that makes it easy for...

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...

Have you ever seen an active volcano up close? Most of us haven't had the opportunity, but now thanks to Google Street View, you can glimpse the fiery depths of one the world's largest boiling lava lakes...