These maps of the United States show that rivers runs through just about everything, including areas people typically consider the driest regions of the country, like Southern California. Software ...

When you think about the world of cartography, antique sepia maps are likely the first images that come to mind. But nomadic digital cartographer Robert Szucs saw the potential to turn nature’s ...

We all know what a winding blue line on a map means, but until we this cartographer’s work we had no idea a little color could transform the world’s rivers into amazing art. A post shared by ...

Cartographers often simplify maps and reduce detail to clarify information. What can we learn when we apply that approach to ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado—It’s the unpredictability that hooked cartographer Matt Dooley on the concept of making maps with gunpowder. “It's impossible to control,” he says. “So it's an opportunity ...

More of North America’s land is covered by rivers than we thought, according to a new map. Scientists came up with a way to use satellite images to estimate the width of rivers and found that previous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nearly 3 million rivers that weave across the world are experiencing rapid and surprising changes, with potentially drastic ...