A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be ...

Cartographers explain how the Equal Earth projection shows Africa’s true relative size and why the world map we use matters.

Togo led the initiative to further the African Union campaign to limit use of the Mercator map, which distorts the relative size of land masses by expanding those nearer the poles. The United Nations ...

The Mercator projection, left, distorts the relative size of landmasses, particularly towards the poles. The Equal Earth ...

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The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

After the recognition in March of the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity," the African Group secured another symbolic victory at the United Nations on September 4 with ...

The U.S. government on Thursday acknowledged an "unfortunate error" that led to a map of Africa with every single country mislabelled being shown at a global AIDS conference this week. The mislabelled ...

A collaboration between CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis and Digital Slavery Research Lab aims to regenerate identities using statsitics. Conflicts among African ...

A bad slide at a global health conference became a bigger test of credibility. The error landed as Washington is already under scrutiny over foreign aid cuts and the ...

Togo's Foreign Ministry has launched a call for applications to translate the Equal Earth world map into African languages, ...