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From President Trump’s bid to acquire Greenland to Beijing’s claims over the South China Sea, cartographer William Rankin tells Mike Higgins how maps sometimes don’t help geopolitical decision-making.

GEORGETOWN, S.C. -- Hurricane Ian has made landfall again, after delivering a devastating impact to southwestern Florida and western Cuba earlier in the week. It was downgraded to a post-tropical ...

A fresh round of winter weather is on the way for the Northeast, with new snowfall projection maps released Sunday morning, Feb. 15, showing the region’s next storm will bring a light but widespread ...

James Cheshire receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and ...

A major ice storm is moving across South Carolina, with some areas expecting over three-quarters of an inch of ice. Widespread power outages and near-impossible travel conditions are expected to last ...

This paragraph explains why the Mercator projection is still a good map tool for most maritime navigation companies. The same factor that has aided sailors for hundreds of years has created a ...

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President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland’s location between North America and Russia gives it ...