In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there's something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in miniature — that somehow endures.

Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean in the centre. From space, the Earth looks like a sphere or a ball. About two thirds of the surface is covered with water, and the rest is ...

This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the world's major cities. Produced by Alex Kuzoian More from News We learned last year that many of the effects of climate change ...