The world is a big place. There is plenty to see on our planet: cities, mountains, and a lot of countries that can be tricky ...

At first glance, it’s just an old atlas — pages yellowed, corners torn, and a cover barely holding together. But inside, the ...

A new theory says personal change is like geographical exploration. Just as maps expand when new lands are discovered, our ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Explore a future world map in 100 years! See how Europe, Russia, India, and the Americas could look in 2125 with shifting ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share the ...

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 ...

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the World Bank have agreed to structure a $70-million climate insurance fund as a co-insurance pool that will bring in private insurers ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our ...