You probably saw a multi-colored climate map at least once in school. You might have pored over it, fascinated. Was Antarctica really a cold desert? And why was so much of Russia listed as tundra?

For the first time since 2012, a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map has been released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The map, released Nov. 15, 2023, is a tool used by gardeners and growers around ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Google has come up with a way to better map Earth’s disasters, predict them, and be able ...