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

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

Russia shares land borders with more countries than any nation on Earth. Its vast size, history and location across two ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...

The attack on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro herald the decoupling of Trump’s United States from the rules-based international order, and the end of liberal order as a whole. A ...

Imagine if Greenland bordered Portugal, Brazil no longer had a coastline, and Tibet suddenly lay by the sea. It sounds ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Researchers in Germany recently accomplished a truly audacious feat ...

Europe has seen 10 of its warmest years since 2007, with heat set to worsen as the continent warms twice as fast as the global average Pace of warming in Europe accelerated over past 2 decades, with ...

Hollywood actor Will Smith travelled across Antarctica with former Wales rugby star turned global adventurer Richard Parks as his guide, in a new series which sees him visit all seven continents.