The story of this discovery is a classic tug-of-war between old maps and new technology, aided by persistent ...

Satellite data reveals Earth's seasons are becoming fragmented and unpredictable, with neighboring regions falling out of ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer questions about the Balcones Escarpment and the Balcones Fault ...

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Buried deep beneath the Atlantic seafloor lies a hidden reservoir that could transform the future of freshwater access.

What you need to know: China has no plans or ability to conquer Greenland, analysts say. But it does have wide-ranging ambitions to expand its presence across the Arctic region. In President Donald ...

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

A massive geological rift is tearing one of Earth’s largest continents in two, faster than scientists once believed.

Storm surge is one of the primary threats when hurricanes make landfall, and there are a lot of factors involved in how high the surge can get. Some of those factors include wind speed, minimum ...

China's role as a leading financier to developing nations has ‌shifted over the past decade, with new loans to poorer countries falling sharply while debt repayments continue to rise, according to ...