Imagine stepping back 200 million years into a world vastly different from the Earth we know today. During the age of dinosaurs, one colossal landmass, Pangaea, dominated the surface, surrounded by ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

The bold question-askers at What If map out how a 40,000 km highway around the equator could revolutionize global travel.

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

As anti-tourism protests continue to hit familiar holiday hotspots, we shine a light on some of the planet’s least visited ...

All together, that makes a wonderful, very human, mess. Back in the 1960s, the United States Geological Survey stated: “There is no generally accepted definition of geographic center, and no ...

But beyond the everyday mentions of France or Japan lies a world filled with lesser-known gems that often don’t make it to our mental maps. Think about it—New ... It's named for the equator passing ...

Curious to know which country has the world's longest name? The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland stands ...