Forget what you learnt in elementary school geography, Earth apparently doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young ...

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

The reality of what lies within our oceans has fascinated people since time immemorial, so it’s no wonder we’ve created ...

Meteorologists are shifting focus from intense winter storms to monitoring potential tropical activity in the coming days, as ...

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

From raging winter storms to tracking tropical weather in the U.S., experts are turning their attention to the tropics over ...

REEs such as niobium, tantalum and ytterbium have been discovered in igneous rock layers – similar to the discovery (and ...

The island’s concentration of natural resource wealth is tied to its hugely varied geological history over four billion years ...