From empires to modern borders, this short explainer unpacks the geography, culture, and politics that make Central Europe ...

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...

A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38% of the ...

This video breaks down why many Earth-like worlds in stories and games feel flat or unrealistic. We explore common mistakes ...

In this essay by Edgar Calabia Samar, he shows how Eka Kurniawan’s 'Beauty Is a Wound' teaches us to dream at multiple scales ...

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

When we think of coral reefs, we picture bright fish, clear water and colourful corals. But reefs have also shaped the planet ...

The authenticity within written history is the account of mankind’s myth or truth. Earth’s geography — the chasms, contours, ...

Single-cell bacteria, in shallow marine waters, altered the composition of liquid and air – as the planet heaved around them. Their fossils still stand, not far from you.

From virtually the moment he and his band of bearded rebels rode into Havana in 1959 until his death from natural causes in 2016, the most iconic leader in Latin America was Fidel Castro. With his ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

Longyearbyen (pictured) and Ushuaia are at opposite ends of the Earth, but have striking similarities. imageBROKER.com, Alamy Stock Photo On opposite ends of the Earth, Longyearbyen, Norway, the ...