African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...
A new and possibly deadlier strain of mpox is spreading rapidly across the globe, leading to a public health emergency being declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). This strain of mpox, known ...
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 ...