Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, mistakenly led him to the Americas instead of Asia. This initiated ...

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

The world is a big place. There is plenty to see on our planet: cities, mountains, and a lot of countries that can be tricky ...

A new United Nations report has confirmed what many developing nations already know: climate change is punishing the poor ...

A new map detailing the precise locations of farms has sparked an uproar. Source: Farm Transparency Project A controversial new world map has been released by an Australian team to reveal the ...

The transfer of the 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry began last Friday with the careful unhooking of the tapestry from its display at the Bayeux Museum in Normandy. Trump responds to cattle ranchers’ ...

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

African nations are demanding that the 'distorted' world map be redrawn to show the true scale of the continent that they argue has been misrepresented for centuries. The African Union (AU) has backed ...