Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Does it sometimes seem like every single inch of Earth has been discovered? Far from it. But scientists are working on it.

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More than structural necessities, these endpapers serve as prime real estate for maps, engravings and illustrations, particularly in children’s books. The end of A.A. Milne’s The World of Pooh ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.

Because previous world maps depicted only Europe ... royal descendants of Lord-11 Quetzalecatzin—who are featured in illustrations—have a right to the land that stretches from Mexico City ...

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Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese, included wind heads—illustrations of human faces with puffed cheeks to indicate wind directions. Initially ...

is a new column on It’s Nice That written by a team of international correspondents in major creative cities around the world. Every two weeks we’ll ... I realised that perhaps a way to approach this ...

The fonts are crisp, and the illustrations are so well-researched, they almost jump off the map. It’s like taking a visual trip around the world and the U.S. without leaving the classroom. Remember ...