This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good ...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

which evolved into today’s National Geographic Maps. As in the past, our cartographers continue to illustrate the world around us through the art and science of mapmaking. We adhere to this long ...

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

Enough talk about "historic sea levels" or "climate projections," today we're flooding the Earth with unrealistic amounts of ...

As National Geographic showed us in 2013 ... This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the world's major cities. More from News Many of the effects of climate change ...

Maps could show us the world in all new ways ... the way to create the golden era of what we now call “geographic information systems” (GIS), was what better could get us.