Scientists are sounding the alarm about sudden and dramatic changes unfolding across Antarctica. The icy continent, once thought to respond only slowly to climate shifts, is showing signs of rapid ...

The Gaia space observatory helped astronomers chart 4,000 light-years worth of our home galaxy.

Cartographers didn’t just redraw a line—they validated a reality: the waters circling Antarctica function as a distinct ocean with outsized impact on climate. Here’s why the ... Continue Reading → ...

The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

First there was Letsile Tebogo, who put Botswana on the sporting map when he won gold in the 200m at the Paris Olympics. Now, there is Gaborone United Ladies, who became the country’s first football ...

While European countries band together to help tackle devastating fires, Africa is being left on its own, writes Nick Ferris.

The President of the African Editors Forum (TAEF), Churchill Otieno, has called on African journalists to reframe the African ...

Africa's leaders have outlined a bold vision of climate action and pledge to present a unified position at COP30 later this ...

How much power lies in a map? The push to replace the ‘distorted’ Mercator projection with a more accurate map that portrays ...

The African continent is undergoing a geological transformation that, in the distant future, could create a new ocean.

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

The African Union endorses the #CorrectTheMap campaign to promote accurate representation of Africa's size on world maps, ...