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

The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, ...

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

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 majority of the world's land area is in a precarious state, a map of the Earth's functional biosphere integrity has ...