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You’ve looked at dozens of maps - but you’ve probably never noticed this missing piece.
Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.
Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath ...
Look at any map pinned to a classroom wall, and you’ll notice that Greenland seems particularly large. It’s true that ... nowhere near that of the whole African continent.
Global maps that depict gradations of psychological traits often conceal as much as they reveal. Here’s a guide for savvy map ...
Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...
Tomatoes and eggplants might soon look and taste very different, thanks to a major scientific breakthrough. A team of ...
Cape Town — South African National Parks (SANParks) confirms that the fire, which impacted large sections of Table ... these zones [as indicated in the map] until further notice.
Most of Africa is north of the equator ... poles as compared to areas near the equator. This map shows that in reality, Brazil is almost as large as Canada, even though it appears to be much ...
Large regions in northern, southern, and central-western Africa, as well as northern Madagascar, are experiencing severe drought conditions due to two or more years of lower-than-average rainfall ...
For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...
You can get in touch with John by emailing [email protected] Newsweek has created a map that lays bare the isolation of a South African research ... ice shelves or large inland ice sheets ...