If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...

A vast, mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific, Zealandia, is now recognized as Earth's eighth continent. Recent ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

In 1739, long before anyone reached Antarctica, Philippe Buache published a map that appeared to show the continent without its ice. The map even split the landmass with a central sea, a feature some ...

A massive continent vanished beneath the ocean—and no one noticed for nearly 400 years. Now, after decades of missed clues, ...

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.

Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

Has anyone ever asked you whether New Zealand is part of Australia — or where exactly it sits on the world map?

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...