Scientists have developed cartograms—maps that convey information by contorting areas—to visualize the risks of climate change in a novel way. Cartograms are maps that change the relative size of ...

The economy’s stacked against us.

A group called Worldmapper.org has created gridded population cartograms of countries across the world, showing how countries would be represented if they were depicted by population size. Each ...

The seemingly unending election cycle may have left you battle-weary and bleary-eyed, but that’s not why physicist Mark Newman’s election maps look distorted. He makes cartograms, maps in which ...