In 2023, a mine along the Central African Copperbelt successfully transported its first copper concentrate through the Lobito ...

On many world maps, Greenland and Africa can look almost the same size. But the reality is very different. Africa covers an ...

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

For decades, global efforts to combat climate change and protect biodiversity have relied on a high-tech promise: that ...

As the Earth warms, new shipping routes from one side of the globe to the other are opening around Greenland, making the vast ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Extended Continental Shelf likened to a new 'basement'—nearly 60% of Alaska. Mead Treadwell of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission explains.

They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

Henry Knox was only 25 years old when commissioned by Continental Army commander George Washington in 1775 to transport 59 ...

The U.S. successfully claimed another one million square kilometers beneath the ocean, expanding its extended continental ...