The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows ...

The teams findings are stark: 60 percent of global land areas are now outside the locally defined "safe zone," and a significant 38 percent are in a high-risk zone.

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

A study reveals that 60% of global land areas are now already outside the locally defined safe zone, and 38% are even in the ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

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

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

Technology We need a better way to map Earth's magnetic field. Finding it could win 1 of these teams $2 million News By Keith Cooper published September 21, 2023 ...