By Akilah Johnson Globe Staff,March 16, 2017, 8:59 p.m. Natacha Scott showed the size of countries on a Peters world map. John Tlumacki/Globe staff ...

To create the map, the researchers amassed over 2,000 stress orientations taken across North America, of which 300 are brand new. These measurements were taken from boreholes—long, narrow shafts ...

A NASA map shows the size of the Antarctic ozone hole at its largest point this year, when it spread to the size of North America. The ozone layer protects life on Earth from the sun's ultraviolet ...

With wildfires burning in North America, it's important to know if you are enveloped in toxic smoke. The smoke is dangerous because it contains a mixture of hazardous gases and solid particles ...

Acquired by Yale University and publicized to great fanfare in 1965, the Vinland Map —supposedly dated to mid-15th century Europe—showed part of the coast of North America, seemingly ...

In the long term, the map could inspire and inform modeling efforts aimed at better understanding North America's geologic past, as well as the continent's present day tectonic intricacies ...