Cartographers explain how the Equal Earth projection shows Africa’s true relative size and why the world map we use matters.

The world map most of us have grown up seeing may not show the world as it really is. The United Nations has backed a move to replace the widely used Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to ...

NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth June 29 that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visual comparison of new UN world map projection Equal Earth and how Greenland's size changes compared to mercator projection. On ...

NASA and the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) of Japan released an improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on October 17, 2011, covering 99 percent of ...

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 resolution ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based platforms, mobile apps, desktop software, and embedded systems for our home ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A "radically different" flat map of the Earth has been produced by ...

The Earth Sciences and Map Library develops research-level collections and services to support the teaching, research, and learning needs of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Department ...

Togo has launched a call for applications to translate the Equal Earth map into African languages, following the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the “Correct the Map” resolution on Sept.