One reason mapmakers may have done this is to hide their ignorance, says Van Duzer. When the Dutch mapmaker Pieter van den Keere made a world map in 1611 (see above), the interior of North America ...

Fact check: Photos of Hawaii lighthouse don't disprove sea-level rise Our rating: False. Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that an image shows a map of the U.S. in 30 years if climate ...

The Mediterranean map reveals that regions with high pGDV are distributed throughout the entire biome. We also see an increased occurrence in coastal lowlands and in riverine landscapes.

Map which claimed to show US climate impacts in 2050 is debunked as photo of the Mediterranean Sea. While sea level rise does threaten US coastlines, it doesn’t do so in the way that went viral ...

Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World By Trevor Paglen 324 pages; Dutton The Gist: From Area 51 to the once-secret prisons of Afghanistan, there are certain ...