Mapmakers respond as Earth’s changing climate reshapes the face of the planet.
To tie in with Earth Day 2010, this article by Cody Crane in Science World magazine April 19, 2010, highlights how the impacts of climate change are keeping map makers busy with tracking changes and updating mapping.
“We’re having to revise coastlines, remap ice shelves, and change lakes that are shrinking in size on maps,” says our own Jethro Lennox, senior editor of the Times Universal Atlas of the World.
Science World is an educational magazine in the United States, aimed at teenage readers in middle and high school.