Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections

The Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, blocking a ...

3 climbers who fell near treacherous pass on Alaska’s Mount McKinley are dead; 1 rescued

Three climbers on Alaska’s Mount McKinley who fell near a treacherous pass on North America’s tallest peak have died, a ...

Final site of Noah’s Ark spotted in centuries-old map — matching real-life location long speculated as the buried Biblical relic

Archaeologists could be one step closer to locating Noah’s Ark’s final resting spot after noticing a peculiar feature on a 440-year-old world map called the Planisphere. Created in 1587 by Italian ...
Business Wire

Alaska Awards Thales Driver’s License, ID Card Contract With Next Generation Security

Alaska residents will be the first in the U.S. to use translucent polycarbonate driver’s license and ID cards from Thales, a new generation of laser-engraved, polycarbonate card technology for ...
BBC

Massive Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded

Aerial view of the August 2025 landslide and tsunami near South Sawyer Glacier in Alaska A massive 'megatsunami' wave created when part of an Alaskan mountain crumbled into the sea is the second ...
San Antonio Current

Physical border wall reappears on map of Texas’ beloved Big Bend National Park

Markings for a physical border wall have reappeared on U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s updated map of its planned projects in Big Bend National Park. The changes appeared Tuesday on the CBP’s map ...
Austin American-Statesman

These rare Texas maps — some centuries old — are finally coming into view

It’s not every day that a cache of historic maps of Texas and the Western Hemisphere — appraised at $3.5 million — passes from private to public hands. That’s what happened recently: After years of ...
The Art Newspaper

New book shows why physical maps have an important role to play in our digital world

A few years ago, James Cheshire, the professor of geographic information and cartography at the University College London (UCL), walked into a forgotten map room on the campus. At the time he did not ...
The Washington Post

Greenland isn’t the answer to U.S. Arctic security. This place is.

Alice Rogoff is publisher of Arctic Today and co-founder of the Arctic Circle Assembly. The United States faces serious security vulnerabilities in the Arctic. The region’s strategic positioning and ...
Science Daily

Hidden brain maps that make empathy feel physical

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers found eight body-like maps in the visual cortex that organize what we see ...
The New York Times

Maps: 6.0-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Alaska Near Anchorage

A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Alaska on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 8:11 a.m. Alaska time about 7 miles northwest of Susitna, ...
Fast Company

New York voted for a new citywide digital map. Here’s what it will do

There are many, many maps of New York City. There are the decor maps, sold on Amazon, and the tourist maps, which focus, erroneously, only on Manhattan. There’s the iconic subway map, as well as the ...