To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

Cartography has always shaped worldview and geopolitics, and often for the worse. So it does in the era of Donald Trump.

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something he wants – something that, as president of the US, he now says he will take “one way or the other.” It’s Greenland, an ...

After stepping away from the art world and starting a family, the artist is having her first solo show in New York with ...

Yesterday was the big day of tricks. Once each year we have designated a day to pull pranks, make jokes, trick others into believing something untrue and have fun at the expense of others. Throughout ...

Bedmap3 unveils Antarctica’s subglacial landscape, mapping ice depth, terrain, and ocean interactions to advance climate ...

In the novel We, the Kindling, Otoniya J. Okot Bitek weaves together stories of women who were abducted as children by a ...