A dramatic rescue took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 21 when more than 100 paddleboarders were swept nearly two miles out to sea by unexpected gusts of wind and strong currents. The waters ...

Those who love to explore while on vacation might find their perfect match in the European-wide EuroVelo cycling routes. They ...

Deep beneath Earth’s surface, hot mantle rock slowly rises, fueling massive volcanic activity, tearing continents apart, and ...

Sid Meier's Civilization VII has received another big update, as the rather divisive 4X strategy game wrangles with a mostly negative user review consensus on Steam.

King Philip II of Spain decreed Madrid – a somewhat sleepy mountain town in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula – the capital ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

Some geologists therefore suspect Iceland is not a lonely island at sea, but actually part of a continent (although as to which one, that can get complicated, too). That notion finds support off ...

This vegetation area makes up just 0.12% of Antarctica’s total ice-free area, highlighting that Antarctica remains the frozen continent dominated by snow and ice. For now.

Tyson's map appears to be lifted from the September 2013 issue of the National Geographic, which considered what different continents would look like if all of the world's ice melted, causing 216 ...