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

Biomass, a European Space Agency satellite, has been orbiting Earth for just over five months collecting data on how much the ...

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

On April 29, a rocket lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Aboard it was a satellite designed to ...

A new study maps the planetary boundary of "functional biosphere integrity" in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds that 60% of global land areas are now already outside the locally defined ...

The African Union says the Mercator projection distorts Africa’s size and identity—and it’s pushing a new map to set the record straight.

Plastic risk maps reveal hidden ocean hotspots where wildlife faces harm from ingestion, entanglement, and chemicals.

The continent of Africa looks different depending on which calculations you choose to make a three dimensional reality into a ...

As plastic pollution emerges as one of the planet's most pressing environmental threats, Tulane University scientists have ...

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

Global Vulnerability Index projects climate resilience to 2100, highlighting education, health, governance, and inequality as ...