The most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African Union ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

The AU’s concerns are hardly new. In the 1970s and 1980s, the same debate raged fiercely until it was resolved in favor of ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of the continent and its size.

Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South Amer ...

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NATIONWIDE — After almost five whole months on the International Space Station, NASA's four-person Crew-10 splashed back down to Earth on Saturday morning.

Crew Dragon C210 Endurance and the Crew-10 astronauts have safely returned to Earth following over… ...