Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World maps distort size and shape by design. Learn why projections matter and how they shape global understanding. (CREDIT: ...

Donald Trump spoke to a journalist in the White House in 2021 about his desire to acquire Greenland: “I love maps. And I always said, ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive, and that should be part ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions of Earth. However, because all flat maps have compromises built into them, ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

A major ice storm is moving across South Carolina, with some areas expecting over three-quarters of an inch of ice. Widespread power outages and near-impossible travel conditions are expected to last ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump’s ambition of seizing Greenland — and suspicions that he covets the Arctic territory because he ...

A new study suggests that with low to moderate levels of global greenhouse emissions in coming decades, more of India could become suitable for growing avocadoes. However, with high enough emissions, ...