As Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron toured a NATO military base in north-west London on Thursday, they were shown a map of the dangers facing the alliance at sea. These ...

However, the magnetic north pole is moving faster than normal resulting in a new out of cycle release for the WMM. Normally, new WMM maps are released every five years, and the next release was ...

This puts China in direct competition with NASA, which seeks to unite nations under the "Artemis Accords" and make a series of lunar landings in the late 2020s and early 2030s.

Confusingly, early Chinese maps seem to buck this trend. But, Brotton, says, even though they did have compasses at the time, that isn’t the reason that they placed north at the top.

The magnetic north pole has been drifting away from the Canadian Arctic at a brisk 55 kilometers — about 34 miles — per year, with ramifications for military and civilian travelers.

Previously, the World Magnetic Model, which tracks Earth's roving magnetic north pole, was updated in 2015 with the intent that the model would last until 2020. But the magnetic north pole had ...