Areas near both the equator and prime meridian are accurate, but the distortion gets worse the further you go from either. This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the ...

However, due to a quirk of nature, it turns out that the equator ... retweeted a map posted by user @Bonecondor showing the routes and severity of hurricanes around the world, amassing 1.4 million ...

but it has increased at a much faster pace in regions close to the equator. Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill now reveals that this changing global emissions map is ...

A team of astronomers has created the first global map of Titan by using the Cassini ... but 17 percent of it (mostly at the equator) is blanketed in dunes. Another 14 percent is hilly or ...

Our high-resolution global heat maps show the Indonesian archipelago ... Most of the good sites are close to the Equator, in and around Indonesia and equatorial west Africa. These are regions ...

For example, an icy Equator alone can't tell scientists the extent of ice cover around the world. The continents may have been in a total deep freeze, or the planet may have simply been subjected ...