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

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

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

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

Why does Earth have continents? Our planet is made of continents and that makes us the oddball of the solar system. No other planet has continents like we do ... and it is unclear why.

Based on a series of models considering how the continents were assembled over time, researchers created an updated map of Earth's tectonic plates.

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

The huge landmassl, Zealandia, sits East of Australia. It's been lost underwater for millennia. Scientists have finally mapped its final corner.

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

Recent discoveries and research suggest the existence of massive underground tunnels that span across continents. These ...

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a change-the-map campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map, they ...