Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style. A recent study reveals how this distortion influences our perception ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump says he wants to take control of Greenland, and apparently he’s serious this time. This news has caused ...

These maps show two different approaches to depicting Greenland. The left map is an orthographic projection, emulating a globe. The right map is a Mercator projection, which exaggerates the sizes of ...