A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

A research team from Munich has created an immense dataset of all structures in the world. It is intended to help with urban ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

A look at how the 2026 World Cup’s sprawling geography will shape travel, rhythm and the competitive balance for teams across ...

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.

Scientists warn the Strait of Gibraltar could eventually vanish, reconnecting Europe and Africa as tectonic plates shift ...

Maps have a way of distorting our perception of the world. But AuthaGraph is trying to bring us back to reality with a new map that accurately depicts the size of continents in comparison to each ...

On average, Africa’s tropical forests gained carbon until 2010, then lost it rapidly—especially between 2015 and 2017. Gains ...

But to millions of Indigenous Americans, the story of Thanksgiving is also closely intertwined with their history of invasion ...