To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

Greenland has become the unwitting focus of world attention as president Donald trump seeks to grab control of the huge ...

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something he wants – something that, as president of the US, he now says he will take “one way or the other.” It’s Greenland, an ...

How men like Gemma Frisius or Gerardus Mercator in the Low Countries, working in freezing temperatures and semidarkness, could produce some of the best maps or globes of their time seems unfathomable.

When you look at a world map, do you ever wonder if the sizes of countries are really what they seem? If you’ve ever thought ...

While President Donald Trump’s offer to buy Greenland may have faded from the public’s attention amid other news since he ...

Donald Trump wants the United States to buy Greenland for its strategically vital resources, to bolster US security and give ...