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 ...

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014 ...

Like all planets, Earth isn't flat. But globes are bulky and cumbersome, so we still squeeze our 3-D orb onto 2-D maps. And thanks to a clever architect in Tokyo, we have a map that could change ...

The world is a lot less stable than the clean, unchanging lines on a world map would suggest. All over the planet there are borders countries cannot agree upon and territories that more than one ...

All of this is coming up in 2025. We expect to, in fact, create the world’s largest training data set of ecosystem occurrences.