Africa: World Maps Get Africa’s Size Wrong – Cartographers Explain Why Fixing It Matters

Africa: World Maps Get Africa’s Size Wrong – Cartographers Explain Why Fixing It Matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 signatures. The map most commonly used is called the Mercator projection. Map projections are how cartographers (map makers) “flatten” the three-dimensional Earth…

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Africa: World Maps Get Africa’s Size Wrong – Cartographers Explain Why Fixing It Matters

Africa: The Global Plastics Treaty Process Has Fallen Flat. Here’s What Went Wrong, and How You Can Help

Progress towards a legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution stalled and went into reverse this week. The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, ran overtime. It’s likely to conclude this evening, without agreement. This is an incredibly disappointing result. As a member of the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty,…

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