In a remarkable geological finding, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is slowly dripping away in blobs of rock.This ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a career that has taken her around the world. Her reported column, Compass, ...

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

The Painted Ladies are one of the most widely distributed butterflies in the world, appearing on every continent except ... to the northern coast of South America — the first documented insect ...