This interactive timeline of the war in Ukraine shows major attacks, key moments and how the battle lines have shifted in the four years since Russia's all-out invasion.

For locations worldwide, the U.S. State Department has been updating its travel advisories, which can affect Americans' international travel.

Simple geography still matters — but tech, infrastructure and distrust of the US are creating new ways of looking at the world.

National Geographic has released two new atlases — and they don’t just update place names. These editions reflect political changes, shifting borders, and new geographic standards that affect how ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geography isn’t just about naming capital cities or pointing to places on a map. It’s about understanding the world, how people ...

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Researchers estimate Greenland alone holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 7.4 metres. At first glance, Greenland still looks like the edge of the world. A vast sweep of ice, rock and silence ...

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence offers a chance for overdue conversations about what schools should teach when it comes to history, government, and social studies. Today, ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions of Earth. However, because all flat maps have compromises built into them, ...

A newly updated global AQI map is providing a detailed, real-time snapshot of air pollution levels across continents, while also drawing attention to regions where limited monitoring affects data ...

A 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet known as the Imago Mundi, or the “Babylonian Map of the World,” recently led British Museum researchers to an astonishing find: a reference to a Great Flood story ...