In his effort to depict the three-dimensional Earth on a two-dimensional map, Mercator made places far from the equator look relatively larger. This is why Greenland appears about the same size as ...

Fail to contain the bird flu. Although in the short term this will decrease our egg supply, ultimately we’ll be left with ...

However, Greenland is actually much smaller than it appears on maps because of the Mercator projection, which makes it look a similar size to Africa. The projection is used to create flat maps but ...

For one, Greenland looks big—almost the size of Africa on a Mercator projection of the world map—and in Trump’s eyes, big is beautiful. But, clearly, there’s more to this than the covetous intent of a ...

In 2021 he told the journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser that he viewed Greenland through the lens of a real estate developer. “I love maps,” Trump told them, perhaps referring to the 16 th ...

But they went on to explore how the impression of Greenland as so very big is the result of a distortion in the so-called Mercator projection — the most widely used version of the world map — which ...

Ga., would also authorize President Trump to begin negotiations with the Danish Government to acquire Greenland.

Research has shown that Greenland could contribute up to 30 cm (one foot) to sea level rise by 2100. For this latest study, the Durham-led researchers used more than 8,000 3D surface maps ...

The comings and goings at Greenland’s new international airport in its capital Nuuk look a bit different of late, as journalists like me come here to see what all the fuss is about. The fuss ...