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 ...

"This breakthrough enables scientists to do something that was impossible until now," according to the system's creators.

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

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

For centuries, the familiar Mercator world map has quietly distorted Africa's size and significance. Now, a coalition of African nations is leading a campaign to set the record straight with a new, ...

The most detailed portrait ever of the Earth’s land surface is being created with ESA’s Envisat environmental satellite. The GLOBCOVER project aims at producing a global land cover map to a ...

The most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African Union ...

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

A study reveals that 60% of global land areas are now already outside the locally defined safe zone, and 38% are even in the ...

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