Our planet is divided into seven continents, each with its own unique landscapes, cultures, and ecosystems. From the frozen wilderness of Antarctica ... cultures and ancient civilizations, with ...

The map will use high resolution remote sensing technology to show the distribution of key features on the continent, including sea ice, snow, blue ice, rocks, soil marshes, lakes and ice ...

The team from the University of Waterloo modeled Antarctica's subglacial environment ... emissions as quickly as possible." Before this continent-wide representation of the Antarctic subglacial ...

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Worsley spent hours poring over maps, laying out a precise route for the expedition. The more he studied Antarctica, the more forbidding it seemed. The continent is nearly five and a half million ...

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with the terms of President Trump's controversial executive order to rename the body of water.

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. Overcrowding can lead to disaster ...

A fossil from Antarctica unveils the oldest-known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, dating back 69 million years. In Chile, astronomers worry about light pollution affecting their research. Russia's space ...

An image of the mysterious doorway in East Antarctica. (Image Source: Google Maps) However, hate to be the buzzkill, but Bethan Davies, professor of glaciology at the University of Newcastle, debunked ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...