The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of ...

Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is part of a long tradition of deploying cartography in the service of power ...

The president-elect said he covets Greenland for its size. He could be misinterpreting it based on well-known mapping distortion.

Marking the perimeter of a future pond in a dense field of cattails is no easy task. But with the help of Hill Environmental, ...

The US has long seen Greenland as essential to its defence and its acquisition has been discussed before. Not just in 2019 ...

Learning can be fun; but if you don’t want to take my word for it, I will let today’s list do the talking. Today, we’re ...

20mn sq km landmass & drill baby drill approach to exploiting vast natural resources People’s view of the world is largely conditioned by Mercator maps. They are named after a Flemish ...

The US president-elect does not rule out force to take over the Danish territory – home to a US military base.

So I understand why Trump is interested—although, having observed him as long as I have, I’m also inclined to believe the theory that he simply doesn’t understand how Mercator maps work and ...