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African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...
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 most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African Union ...
A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...
Session ID: 2025-08-23:6a32f93de581b703327a9b7b Player Element ID: video_6116145704001_5067014667001-93681 First map of hidden continent below Antarctica dubbed 'Earth's deepest land' revealed ...
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 ...
Venus is the world next door. An Earth-sized planet that couldn’t be less like Earth, it is a hellish world with acid clouds. Several missions are planning to go there over the next decade ...
"Up until now, we've had a better map of Mars than we've had of Antarctica," Ian Howat, earth science professor at Ohio State, said in a statement. "Now it is the best-mapped continent on Earth." ...
The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) map has a resolution more than 100 times sharper than previous representations. "At this resolution, you can see almost everything," Ian Howat ...
Session ID: 2025-07-15:34ee90199a6c27bd19ae776e Player Element ID: video_6116145704001_5067014667001-120241 First map of hidden continent below Antarctica dubbed 'Earth's deepest land' revealed ...