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

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

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

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 ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Ecopia, founded in 2013, specializes in using artificial intelligence to extract features from high-resolution satellite imagery and build what it calls a “digital twin of the Earth.” Its machine ...

Earth's atmospheric rivers are no longer traveling along their historical paths. They are shifting toward both poles, an ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

Satellites reveal 85 new lakes beneath Antarctica’s ice, exposing a shifting underworld that influences glaciers and future ...