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

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

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

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to ...

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

The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

A study reveals that 60% of global land areas are now already outside the locally defined safe zone, and 38% are even in the ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

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

The majority of the world's land area is in a precarious state, a map of the Earth's functional biosphere integrity has ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ...