Find Your Way Downstream with Streamer
Water is essential for life on the planet, and tool from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) makes it easy and fun to trace water flow across … Read more
Rebecca Maxwell
Zoomorphic Maps: Imagining Maps as Animals
These zoomorphic maps were created for propaganda purposes, portraying the world according to what point the cartographer wanted to get across.
Maps as People: Anthropomorphic Maps
Cartographers have been creatively crafting heads and bodies out of mountain ranges, coastlines, and other physical features. These anthropomorphic maps were intended mostly as propaganda pieces to show off the might of one country or stereotype foreign lands.
Underwater Global Warming
Scientists are using satellites and remote sensing to better understand changes in sea-surface temperatures.