As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The ...

A world map showing the predicted ... Asia south of the Arctic Circle. (The Arctic Circle begins just above 66 degrees north latitude). Virtually every major city on Earth, from New York to ...

An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world ... globes. One dates from 1541 and shows the surface of the Earth.

The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Torrential rains in the Congolese capital Kinshasa in early April brought devastating floods that ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

The first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by the expedition led initially by Ferdinand Magellan and later by Juan ...

Fresh analysis of records for more than 30,000 species now points to a single thread that stitches Earth's bioregions ...

There are so many things that can go wrong over the nearly 30,000 miles of the Vendée Globe: routing and tactical ... Dalin was pursued all the way round the world by two of his countrymen ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...