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

The UN resolution instead endorses use of the Equal Earth projection, which better shows the relative sizes of land masses.

Last week, on 4th September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows ...

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

Called the Global Glacier Extinction Explorer, the interactive tool is the brainchild of scientists from ETH Zurich and Vrije ...

The United Nations adopted the Equal Earth map showing Africa's true size, but the United States was the sole nation to vote ...

The UN General Assembly voted 164 to 1 to drop 500 year old Mercator world maps on September 4 2026. The UN assembly urged ...

The newly launched Global Glacier Extinction Explorer has revealed the fate of every single glacier on Earth, and the grim ...

The motion passed overwhelmingly with 164 nations voting in favour, 6 abstentions (Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, ...

The Mercator map, which most of us grew up with, makes Africa look smaller and Greenland much larger than they are-but that's ...

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to phase out Mercator projections and adopt Equal Earth projections, a change meant to better represent geographic size on maps. The vote came on Sept. 4, ...