Maps sit quietly in classrooms, on news websites and inside phone screens. They look settled and precise, but the world they ...

Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map ...

On most maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than ...

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Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions of Earth. However, because all flat maps have compromises built into them, ...

Learn why projections matter and how they shape global understanding. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape ...

President Donald Trump is hoping to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory covering more than 836,000 square miles —three times the size of Texas, with about 80% covered by a massive ice cap.

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FULLERTON, California — Social Distortion is gearing up to release a new studio album in May of this year, marking the band’s first full-length collection of original music since 2011’s “Hard Times ...

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland's location between North America and Russia gives it ...