The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to ...

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

The teams findings are stark: 60 percent of global land areas are now outside the locally defined "safe zone," and a ...

The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, ...

A new One Earth study finds 60% of global land has crossed local ecological thresholds for biosphere integrity, with 38% in ...