African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its significance.

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

Scientists studying the lost continent of Zealandia have produced a series of detailed maps that show the continent sitting beneath the ocean surface. Zealandia is a huge underwater landmass ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

SCIENTISTS are mapping the mysterious “lost” continent of Zealandia for the first time. The gigantic landmass in the South Pacific disappeared beneath the waves 23million years ago – an… ...

Image captured by the HiRISE camera from high-up in orbit around Mars seems to show a map of Earth's continents on the surface ...

The most accurate terrain map of Antarctica has a resolution of 2 to 8 meters—more than 100 times sharper than previous representations.

SCIENTISTS are mapping the mysterious “lost” continent of Zealandia for the first time. The gigantic landmass in the South Pacific disappeared beneath the waves 23million years ago – an… ...