Primary school geography paints such a neat picture of the world. It tells us, for example, that there are seven continents on Earth, but the truth is far more complex. Researchers are constantly ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Charles Angelo Siringo came into the world in 1855 in Matagorda County, Texas, a place where the Gulf winds met the prairie ...

Colombia is one of the world’s most geographically diverse nations, home to towering Andes peaks, expansive Amazon rainforest ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

Abstract: Pandemics originated by Covid-19 has caused many reactions in the world. Each country has reacted with different health policies. In this work, we analyze the publications of African ...

Geoscientists have solved an age-old mystery of oceanic volcanism and plate tectonics, explaining why some islands contain so much continental material despite their distance from continental plates.

A piece of the lowermost continental mantle (the crystalline roots of the continents). This represents the material that the research proposes is removed and swept sideways into the oceanic mantle.