Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human ...

In the 1930s, in segregated Sutherland town south of Richmond, Virginia, USA, there were two occupational options for black women. They could either work for penurious pay on local sharecropping ...

Viral posts suggest Google Maps imagery shows a human trafficking plea in L.A., but police say there's no evidence of ...

A search for Beit Hanoun in Google Maps will reveal a massive Star of David carved into the ground of former farmland in ...

Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its Maps service.

Police investigated the location where words like "help" and "trafficking" are shown from satellite images but "found no ...

Social media users have noted satellite imagery showing the words "HELP" and "TRAFICO" etched into the ground at a rail yard ...

One of the most powerful online tools at your disposal is the sprawling Google Earth project, which allows you to use ...

A New York county has agreed to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised residents of color.

VIIRS/MODIS satellite hotspot data is updated daily in the morning with the red dots indicating which direction the fire is ...

A University of Illinois doctoral candidate received a $150,000 investment from NASA to create a detailed grassland map using ...