Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

The world's largest island has its own system of fjords, lakes and black-sand beaches. What to know about the size of the ...

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

On many world maps, Greenland and Africa can look almost the same size. But the reality is very different. Africa covers an ...

Nestled in the South Pacific Ocean, some 6,000 people live on the most isolated, inhabited island in the world: Rapa Nui.

The president’s obsession with Greenland is especially dangerous because it has no real constituency: Trump is determined to ...

For decades, global efforts to combat climate change and protect biodiversity have relied on a high-tech promise: that ...

A top-ranked board game player has revealed the shocking parallels between President Trump's global strategy and a game ...

W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent of Africa. But in truth, it's not that big; its unusual size comes down to ...

Storm Goretti has brought 99mph (159km/h) winds and heavy snow to the UK, with tens of thousands of people left without power ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Woodrow Wilson’s speech on January 8, 1918, changed the course of U.S. foreign policy and international diplomacy.