The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

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Africa is often characterised as hot, dangerous, uninhabitable, poor, unstable and corrupt.

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But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest—the size of about 381 million soccer fields—was destroyed every year between 2010 and ...

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