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

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.

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world, in favour of one that ...