Google DeepMind announced today a breakthrough artificial intelligence system that transforms how organizations analyze Earth's surface, potentially revolutionizing environmental monitoring and ...

The UN General Assembly is considering a proposal to promote the Equal Earth projection, which shows the true size of ...

The world map most of us have grown up seeing may not show the world as it really is. The United Nations has backed a move to replace the widely used Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visual comparison of new UN world map projection Equal Earth and how Greenland's size changes compared to mercator projection. On ...

The UN’s ‘Correct the Map’ resolution backs equal-area projections like Equal Earth. Here’s why India and South Asia appear larger than on Mercator maps. When the United Nations General Assembly voted ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted 164-1 on September 4, 2026, to adopt the Equal Earth map projection as the official UN-backed world map, marking a significant shift toward representing ...

On the 30th (local time), Google's artificial intelligence (AI) organization, DeepMind, unveiled a new AI model, "AlphaEarth Foundations," which analyzes vast Earth observation data and easily ...

Scouring the corners of Google Earth and Maps has become an interesting way for people to explore the planet, and sometimes they come across the most unexpected finds. From random snapshots of humans ...

Google loves itself a cartography app. So much so that it has two of them: Google Maps and Google Earth. Besides having overlapping functionality related to global satellite imagery with geographic ...