On 21 June 2018, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission published a new edition of the World Atlas of Desertification, offering a tool for decision makers to improve local responses to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the world’s best hotels, restaurants and wine. It’s been ten years since the last edition of The World Atlas of Whisky by ...

“Wine is geography,” Jancis Robinson MW often says. And in this new 8 th edition of The World Atlas of Wine, Ms. Robinson and co-author Hugh Johnson focus on wine region geography in depth. This ...

I’ve always enjoyed poring over a good map. Whether it’s thumbing through a road atlas, spinning around a globe, or sticking pushpins into a wall map to designate where I’ve been and where I want to ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...

Here are nine of California’s beautiful small towns that are worth the trip, according to World Atlas, and how far they are ...