Greenland is the world’s largest island, but it’s not as big the Mercator map would have us believe. The widely reproduced map, created in 1569, suggests Greenland is roughly the same size as ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. The warning comes in a new ...

with Greenland appearing on most maps to be roughly the same size of Africa, even though Africa is in fact 14 times larger. The Mercator Projection is the name for the distortion in mapping that ...