Despite being developed for navigation, the Mercator projection has remained common in educational materials, media, digital mapping, and other forms of geographic representation. Its continued use ...

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 General Assembly voted 164-1 on September 4, 2026, to adopt the Equal Earth map projection as the official UN-backed world map, marking a significant shift toward representing ...

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 on Friday was one vote shy of unanimously adopting a new map of the world that shows Africa's true size, making the continent appear far larger than it does on traditional maps. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United Nations on Friday was one vote shy of unanimously adopting a new map of the world that shows Africa's true size, making ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong. The ...

Sept. 4 (UPI) --The United Nations will vote Friday to adopt a new map of the world meant to make the countries appear more true to size than they are on the one we use today. The 2018 equal Earth ...

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look smaller than it is. By John Yoon The United Nations General Assembly on ...

This story has been updated to add new information. Navigation platforms are all over the map so far on adoption of President Donald Trump’s new name for Lake Ontario: Lake America. After Trump's Aug.

Google updated its map software to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America for users in the US. The change follows an executive order. NASA/Google Maps Google on Saturday changed its Maps ...

The FDA approved daraxonrasib, the first targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma, citing a survival benefit vs chemotherapy. The FDA approved daraxonrasib (Rasonque; Revolution ...