Some roads exist purely to get you from point A to point B, and then there are the ones that make you forget there even was a ...

By 2050, Africa will represent one in four people on Earth. The continent’s economic potential, alongside its global diaspora ...

Wegener at the University of Graz in Germany says that millions of years ago the two Americas, as well as Europe, Asia, ...

For much of prehistory, Southeast Asia was not a scattering of islands separated by shallow seas. It was a single, immense ...

In December 1911, Roald Amundsen and his crew reached the South Pole, beating his rival, Robert Falcon Scott, by 35 days.

Today, Long Valley behaves with unnerving politeness—occasional uplift, periodic earthquakes, the subtle exhalation of ...

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

If it were to melt completely, the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough ice to raise the global sea levels by 4 ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Long before the continents spread across the globe, Earth held one connected landmass known as Pangaea. This supercontinent ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

South America is one of the easiest continents for American travelers craving adventure without bureaucracy. With vast ...