The world map you’re probably most familiar with has been misleading ... Brazil — the fifth-largest country in the world by surface area — appears to be the same size as the state of Alaska, but as ...

The state that can swallow Texas, Montana, and California with room for a New England-size dessert ... geeks from NASA to find a way to map more of Alaska's woods—and the carbon stored within.

If you grew up thinking Greenland was bigger than India, or that Alaska was the size of Brazil, you probably learned geography from a Mercator map. Originally created in the 16th century for ...

Newly released digital maps of Alaska, which reveal its topography more sharply than ever before, are helping scientists understand the impact of climate change. Newly released digital maps of ...