Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

With the CBSE Class 10 Social Science exam set for 7 March 2026, this report draws on faculty inputs to show what students ...

How is knowing about the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism relevant to the UPSC exam? What significance do topics like the ...

Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

During his remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami earlier this month, Donald Trump tried to defend his renaming of the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America," ignorantly claiming that the ...

It’s that time of year. No, not Halloween. It’s time for the Disney parks’ annual October ticket price increases. A Disney spokesperson told Deadline that, although prices are changing, the parks’ ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Stephanie Brown has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Manuel Eisner does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...

One of the biggest features of any mapping service is the ability to deliver driving directions. Google Maps does this very well. However, if you’re looking to avoid Google products and services, then ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...