A large section of the horizontal border looks incredibly straight on most world maps. In particular, the 2,027-kilometer ...

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Adventure travel has long captured imaginations, but cruising to destinations like Patagonia, the Galápagos, and the Amazon ...

Many people in the English-speaking world would have learned in school that there are seven continents: Asia, Africa, North ...

From country outlines to iconic foods, famous landmarks, city names & national symbols, this geography quiz truly has ...

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.

Earth scientists have discovered how continents are slowly peeled from beneath, fueling volcanic activity in an unexpected ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

Biggest Ocean Mysteries Scientists Can't Explain: 25 Scary Facts That Are Terrifying Because They're True: Sometimes the ...

Approximately 8,300 graves are at Margraten, one of a handful of out-of-the-way cemeteries for America’s war dead near the German borders of France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. Many of ...

Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly ...