Three Indigenous studies scholars draw from colonial histories and explain why listening for alien life can have ethical ramifications.

As Black August Resistance Month 2026 ends, a multifront war for the political heart of Afro-America is roiling.

The oldest countries on Earth trace their roots through ancient kingdoms, dynasties, political communities, and thousands of ...

Explore The Great Salt Road, Europe's ancient trade network. Discover its immense economic impact, forgotten routes, and how ...

The Mercator Projection, which preserves shape and direction but distorts relative landmass. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia ...

Over recent months, the straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb have become synonymous with geopolitical jostling. Whoever controls these narrow waterways governs the flow of maritime traffic from the ...

This also implies that we've been wildly undermining the true scale of the crushing impact colonization had on Indigenous populations. Reading time 3 minutes For the past century or so, the consensus ...

Earlier this month, the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt Equal Earth maps and to phase out the distortions of the widely used Mercator Projection.

Last week, on 4 September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another. It aims to correct the view of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is spending $180 million to map its vast and largely unexplored territory as Kinshasa seeks greater control over the geological information that could determine ...