Tom PattersonThe Equal Earth map projection. An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past.

Given the increasing importance of rare earths, countries with large reserves are gaining significant economic and political influence.

This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years.

IN the modern age, it’s hard to imagine that there’s anywhere on Earth that we haven’t fully explored. But there are surprisingly large chunks of Earth that civilisation has yet ...

For decades environmentalists have warned that ever-rising numbers of people and their impact on the Earth's finite resources ... harder to ignore. In this map-based feature, gauge the scope ...

From GPS navigation systems to images of current events taking place on the other side of the planet, the world in 3D is ...

This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the world's major cities. Produced by Alex Kuzoian More from Politics We learned last year that many of the effects of climate ...