The island is home to nearly 100 species of lemur, some of the world's most impressive chameleons, over a hundred bird ...

From the peaks of the Andes to the depths of the Amazon Basin, every South American nation holds a story written in its landscape. This episode explores one defining fact from each of the continent’s ...

Scientists Tested the '5-Second Rule' for Dropped Food—Here’s What They Found Joe: If it's a hoax, release all of the Epstein ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Geographic confusion runs deep in the American psyche, especially when it comes to identifying which countries belong to ...

Many people in the English-speaking world would have learned in school that there are seven continents: Asia, Africa, North ...

You’d probably be able to point to the continent where the Statue of Liberty stands, right? Well, if the questions got a little tougher, would you be able to keep up? Manmade locations, natural ...

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, which is the only city in the world located on two continents, Asia and Europe. Divided by the Bosphorus Strait, Istanbul is where East meets West, offering a ...

For billions of years, Earth's continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems and civilizations. But the secret to their stability has mystified ...

Scientists recently published new ideas about why Earth’s toughest, oldest continents persist. These continents, known as cratons, have been on earth for more than two billion years. Andrew Zuza, an ...

New research examining over 20 years of data captured by NASA’s twin climate satellites, GRACE and GRACE-FO, has revealed an “unprecedented” level of water loss among the planet’s continents, creating ...