The map of Earth looks settled at first glance. Continents feel fixed, named, and counted. Yet over the past few decades, ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Deep inside Earth lies a hidden world of "intraterrestrials" that have been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years — what ...

Which ocean has the maximum number of islands in the world? Explore why the Pacific Ocean holds this record, along with its island groups, biodiversity, geological activity and key geography facts.

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

Greenland, the world's largest island, is drawing global attention due to its massive ice sheet and rich natural resources. Climate change is accelerating ice melt, revealing hidden geological ...

A reconstruction of temperature in Colombia during the Pliocene, when CO2 levels were similar to today, suggests that parts of the tropics might soon experience more dramatic warming than previously ...

Rail travel turns transit into a vacation. These 9 standout routes—from the Rockies and the California Zephyr to Alaska’s ...

The ecological value of the Toyyar Lake landscape extends far beyond water. The lateritic plateau adjoining Toyyar Lake at ...

Along a stretch of coast that usually behaves by the book, officials have been grappling with a rare ocean pattern that has not appeared at this strength since the 1950s. The event has scrambled ...

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor. Its formation was long thought to be the result of simple stretching of ...