The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look ...
The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an "Equal Earth" map. The U.S. described it as a "radical ideological project." ...
Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...
We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to ...
It is the culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advocacy groups to reject 'cartographic colonialism'.
The UN General Assembly is due to vote on Friday on a proposal to move away from the traditional Mercator projection.
State Department says staffer hastily altered slide deck before Rio event Reuters analysis finds map image carries OpenAI watermark Map places Nigeria in Sahara and shifts Mozambique and Ivory Coast ...
UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Vicky Oelze prepares samples for a strontium isotope analysis. Postdoctoral fellow Xueye Wang and UCSC graduate and undergraduate students processed hundreds 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 ...
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