A simple rule that seems to govern how life is organized on Earth is described in a new study published in Nature Ecology & ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

The country’s government is centrist, with deep ties to Brussels. Its new president is a Trump-backed nationalist. That ...

The concepts of continents have confused people from their very beginning. Today I try to see if I can do any better at dividing the world up into manageable units.

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans ...