The feature works on both the app version of Google Earth and the browser-based version. To access it, tap the layers menu.

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

Where Are the World’s Rare Earth Mineral Deposits? A new global map, based on U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data, pinpoints the richest rare earth mineral reserves on the planet.

Flooded Earth: How the global map and countries' coastlines will change by 2100 as higher temperatures cause sea levels to rise, flooding cities such as London and New York.

Researchers have taken a major step toward the exploration of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, by producing the first global map of the world’s icy plains, twisted canyons, and crinkled shorelines.

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

Map Reveals Where World's Rare Earth Minerals Are Located. Published Feb 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM EST Updated Feb 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM EST. By . Hugh Cameron is Newsweek U.S. news reporter based in ...

The Global Ecosystems Atlas is a tool that aims to serve as an open-source repository for data on all the ecosystems in the world. Developed by the intergovernmental initiative Group on Earth ...