Meta — the company behind Facebook — just announced an ambitious plan to link five of the world’s continents to the internet with a data cable stretching over 30,000 miles along the ocean floor. Known ...

Miles beneath the ocean there are numerous sunken lands just waiting to be discovered. How did these lost lands form, and ...

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In this episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd takes a look at a few more misconceptions about Antarctica, from its ...

Analyze monthly-averaged or daily sea ice extent and concentration via interactive maps. Plot monthly ice extent anomalies, map sea ice concentration anomalies, and more. Use a map-based interface to ...

The "default" map type option in Civilization 7, Continents Plus includes a pair of large landmasses as well as a few islands ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

From the moment you arrive – as jetlagged and travel-worn as you’re likely to be after a two-day odyssey from Canada – you ...

Geologists have long viewed North America and Europe as separate continents, yet new studies suggest there might be more complexity beneath the surface of Earth’s oceans. Ongoing research has revealed ...

It will weaken the ability of African countries to respond to health emergencies, and could lead to increases in death and illness on the continent. It will also have broader implications for ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...