Photographer Simon Norfolk traced the fiery fate of Nigeria’s Lewis Glacier using GPS surveys to demarcate the previous extents of the Glacier with burning petroleum and capturing it with long exposure photography, as shown above. Witness the stunning footage on The Story Institute to see the painstaking lengths he made to get the images.

This week’s discovery of exoplanet Kepler-452b was like discovering a family member you never knew existed. The planet may be 1,400 light-years away, but people are touting it as Earth’s cousin and even “Earth 2.0.” See the Science Alert post to find out all we know about it.

Science Alert also got the scoop on a new artificial city known as Mcity, which has been constructed in Michigan to act as a testing site for driverless cars.

When The Economist dissects the mapping industry, you know there’s big things happening. The economics magazine discussed the significance of selling HERE maps and which European car companies might be looking to place a bid.

Feeling the winter blues? Try comparing it to Boston’s record breaking snow storm earlier this year with the “Snow Journal” story map, as shared by GCN.

This is “EPIC”: A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away using the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC).

Maps Mania discovered a map that shows which countries drink the most alcohol. Australia is right up there, but which country is the drunkest?

Big Think provided a thorough lesson on the folly of interpreting maps by analysing the maps that suggest “Islam prevents AIDS.” Is it causation, or merely correlation? Have a Big Think.

On the less serious side, they also shared several instances of people having birthmarks that resemble the outline of countries.