Map Showing How Big Africa Really Is Goes Viral

A viral map is reshaping how people see Africa’s true size, sparking debate over the Mercator projection and why world maps ...
YouTube on MSN

Americans try to label world map

3 Americans, 1 blindfold, and a blank world map. 2 of them are a little rusty with geography, so theyre counting on Isaac, their geography genius, to carry the team. If the team labels 20 countries ...
History Snob on MSN

When medieval mapmakers filled the unknown world with monsters

When modern readers look at medieval maps, the instinct is to smile at the sea creatures and assume cartographers were just ...
Indiatimes

Satellites ‘X-ray’ Antarctica, new map reveals hidden world under 2 kms ice

Until now, scientists knew surprisingly little about what lies beneath the Antarctic ice sheet despite it covering about 98% of the continent’s surface. In fact, researchers used to know more about ...
The Indian Express

Global Air Quality in Focus: AQI World Map Highlights Pollution Hotspots, Regional Variations, and Data Gaps

A newly updated global AQI map is providing a detailed, real-time snapshot of air pollution levels across continents, while also drawing attention to regions where limited monitoring affects data ...
Fast Company

This incredible map shows the world’s 2.75 billion buildings

From the latest skyscraper in a Chinese megalopolis to a six‑foot‑tall yurt in Inner Mongolia, researchers at the Technical University of Munich claim they have created a map of all buildings ...
The Conversation

Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world

Doug Specht does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
ZME Science

The World Map We Learned in School is Wildly Misleading and Africa Wants It Gone

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 ...
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

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 ...
The Washington Post

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...
CNN

African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent’s true size

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...
TreeHugger

Maps of the World's Forests

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Forests cover some 3.9 billion hectares (or 9.6 billion acres) which is ...