Maps can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else. But while the physical geography of our world can be set in ...

In this interview, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Irina Tsukerman discuss escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, threats to American warships, Iranian oil tankers, and growing regional instability. They examine U ...

What moved in Latin American markets, politics and expat life. Yesterday’s subject line: “The Fed raised. Brazil cut, four hours later.” Argentina’s recovery stalled in the second quarter: the economy ...

The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.

Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, is reissuing his 1970 memoir "Seize the Time" as he approaches his 90th ...

The most widely used global map is almost 500 years old and was designed for navigation. But landmasses near the poles look ...

The Equal Earth supports a more accurate geographic understanding of the relative sizes of countries and continents. It ...

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global map is intended to better represent the relative sizes of continents and ...

A societal spotlight on extreme thinness is stripping body diversity from screens, just as fashion magazines did in the early aughts, mental health experts tell Axios.

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 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 ...