A 1718 map called The Course of the Mississippi, or the St. Louis, the famous river of North America shows how one cartographer imagined the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River connecting.

All maps tell stories, but Canadian Geographic Education’s latest map is especially unique not because of what’s in it, but rather what it’s made of.The new classroom map of Canada and North America ...

To create the map, the researchers amassed over 2,000 stress orientations taken across North America, of which 300 are brand new. These measurements were taken from boreholes—long, narrow shafts ...

A map shows the ozone hole above Antarctica in September, when it was the size of North America. The ozone protects the Earth from the sun's ultraviolet rays.

In the long term, the map could inspire and inform modeling efforts aimed at better understanding North America's geologic past, as well as the continent's present day tectonic intricacies.

More of North America’s land is covered by rivers than we thought, according to a new map. Scientists came up with a way to use satellite images to estimate the width of rivers and found that ...

Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery New technical analysis dates Yale’s Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested.