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 ...
The Earth System Grid Federation, a multi-agency initiative that gathers and distributes data for top-tier projections of the Earth's climate, is preparing a series of upgrades that will make using ...
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Why Africa looks smaller than it really is on Google Maps
Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many other online maps, distorts the size of landmasses, making Africa look small ...
Photo of volcano eruption at Mount Redoubt in Alaska in 2009 Credits: Game McGimsey, USGS Researchers have found that the cooling effect that volcanic eruptions have on Earth’s surface temperature is ...
A simulation of the planet from the DOE Energy Exascale Earth System Model, one of the large-scale models incorporated in the Earth System Grid Federation led by DOE’s Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence ...
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