Water temperatures have surged above 85 degrees in the Mediterranean Sea, where records have been broken every day for weeks.

Intense marine heat can have devastating consequences for ecosystems with its ripple effects also extending onto land.

No more politics!” This week’s story is about a conversation between a former Geography teacher, now a real estate agent, who ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't match the real world? Well, that’s because the map you're used to is likely ...

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In this eye-opening video, we reveal the truth about how big (or small) countries ...

The map is most suitable for local area mapping and is used by digital platforms like Google Maps. When enlarged into a world map, though, Mercator becomes problematic, Braun said.

Cartographers agreed that the Mercator map was outdated, inaccurate, and wasn’t the best way to represent the world’s landmasses. They’d been calling for the use of a new projection since ...

Chloe Smith founded Mercator.ai in 2020 to address a critical blind spot in the construction industry. For years, the sector relied heavily on personal relationships to drive billion-dollar ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.

The Mercator map was intended as a navigational tool for European mariners, who could draw a straight line from Point A to Point B and find their bearings with little trouble.