World Atlas said 8 lakes in the US are snake filled and one of those lakes is in Alabama? Which lake slithered onto the list?

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

"My, Grandma - what a big atlas you have!" All the better to map the surface of the Earth to a frankly-ludicrous level of detail (this thing shows the location of shipwrecks), not to mention display ...

I’ve always enjoyed poring over a good map. Whether it’s thumbing through a road atlas, spinning around a globe, or sticking pushpins into a wall map to designate where I’ve been and where I want to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the world’s best hotels, restaurants and wine. It’s been ten years since the last edition of The World Atlas of Whisky by ...

“Wine is geography,” Jancis Robinson MW often says. And in this new 8 th edition of The World Atlas of Wine, Ms. Robinson and co-author Hugh Johnson focus on wine region geography in depth. This ...

I gave a presentation recently over one of those Zoom group calls. When I asked for questions at the end, I was hit with an unexpected doozy: "Why is your world map upside down?" While online meetings ...

Karl the Fog really gets around. He’s based in San Francisco, but that’s not his primary residence. Sure, he works remotely, which allows him to spread the mist to Point Reyes — a whopping 200 days a ...

A new, comprehensive atlas of worldwide light pollution reveals that one-third of all people cannot see the Milky Way in the sky, including nearly 80 percent of North Americans. The atlas, ...