Urban heat islands are a solvable data problem: this piece shows how to combine free satellite imagery, standard ...

Maps can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else. But while the physical geography of our world can be set in ...

ORNL's LandScan Mosaic can map the world's populations 24/7 down to individual buildings with advanced modeling.

The newly revealed geographical areas, combined with existing knowledge of the supercontinent, reveal that Gondwana could have had outsized effects on sea level, atmospheric gas and volcanic eruptions ...

Aminata Sheriff: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: I woke up to the celebratory news about the UN approving a resolution on how Africa is represented on world maps, and I’m genuinely baffled ...

FOR centuries, Africans have looked at maps of the world and accepted, almost without question, a visual representation in which our continent appears smaller than it really is. On September 4, 2026, ...

The map of Africa is much larger than most people think. However, most classroom maps and atlases still understate it – a distortion embedded in the Mercator projection that has shaped world maps for ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...

The United Nations has adopted a West African country’s proposal for a new world map to replace one created in the 16th century. The vote on Friday was almost unanimous. Only one country — the United ...

Nigeria and 163 other countries have endorsed an African-led United Nations resolution calling for world maps that more accurately reflect Africa’s true geographical size. The UN General Assembly ...

Missouri officials asked the Supreme Court on Friday to reinstate the Republican-friendly congressional map which adds one seat for the GOP. “A federal-election-administration disaster is unfolding in ...

The U.S. was the only country to not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions on world maps. The body passed the “Correct the Map” initiative by a ...