A hiker and outdoorsman, Mr. Thomas as a child yearned for a world where nature ruled supreme. His map represents the “idealistic planet that I wanted,” Mr. Thomas, 34, said.

Alaska also seems comparable to Australia, yet it covers 4.4 times less area in real life. ... The AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the overall winner of Japan's prestigious Good Design Award.

The Danish capital of Copenhagen was named the world's "most livable city," while North American cities overall ranked in the ...

Called the AuthaGraph, the result is a world map that looks a little different than most of us are used to. Seen in rectangular form, Antarctica is intact and at the bottom right. The Americas and ...

A map shows how dramatically out of kilter Australia’s heat is with the rest of the world, as another record breaking day beckons. New South Wales and South Australia are set to bake in ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred formed in the Coral Sea Saturday evening Australian Eastern Time, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The tropical cyclone had sustained wind speeds of 40 miles ...

As seen in the map above, using data from the U.S. Geological Survey, Australia benefits from a substantial mineral endowment. Australia is home to numerous deposits of rare earths like xenotime ...

About 100 million years ago, Antarctica, India and Australia were all connected, then over the next 55 million years, they split up — setting off a movement that continues until today. Article ...

Dramatic changes have been made to world maps as ice continues to melt around the Earth’s poles.. Cartographer Elena Field told Yahoo News Australia the alterations made to Antarctica and the ...

The French map that showed a new world In the early 1500s, a huge landmass was thought to exist south of Indonesia but it awaited exploration, writes Martin Woods . November 23, 2013 — 3.00am ...

Australia is the fifth most transparent country in the world when it comes to information, according to the Open Knowledge Index 2014 - but government spending data is not as available as it could be.

How Australia compares. ... Reuters is collecting daily COVID-19 infections and deaths data for . 240 countries and territories around the world, updated regularly throughout each day.