The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

A study published in Nature found some regions on Earth experience peak spring at unexpected times. Researchers found ...

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Oceans cover three-quarters of the Earth, yet only 20% of the seafloor has yet been mapped. The race to understand these ...

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

Earth is a sphere, so how can it be accurately portrayed on a 2D map? Simply flatten Earth into two pancakes, one depicting the Northern Hemisphere and the other the Southern, with the equator running ...

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 ring that ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...