In recent days, many worrying bushfire maps have been circulating online, some appearing to suggest all of Australia is burning. I’ll explain how we use data collected by satellites to estimate how ...

A “priceless” rare map of Australia that was understood to be lost forever has been discovered in an attic and returned to its permanent home. Unearthed in 2010 in storage in Sweden where it spent ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The Sonoma County Fire ...

For the third time since the start of Australia's fire season, a state of emergency has been declared in the Australian state of New South Wales due to fires that are burning out of control. The ...

Australia's cheapest major city is a long way from anywhere - inspiring an upside down map of the nation which has divided opinion. Darwin, Australia's most affordable capital city in the tropical Top ...

Looking at some of the early European cartographers' maps of the Australian continent, it's hard to not be amused by the inaccuracies. In one, we see Queensland conjoined with Papua New Guinea, while ...