Yacine Djibo, Executive Director of Speak Up Africa, emphasized: “Decisions about Africa—economic, political, and developmental—are being made using a false reference point.

So Greenland is 14 times smaller than Africa on the globe, and it’s also 14 times smaller on the Equal Earth map.” Jenny said the team never set out specifically to correct some of the most ...

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa.