Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

It is a land of extremes, boasting both the highest and lowest points on Earth ... continent also has vibrant cultures and ancient civilizations, with Egypt’s Great Pyramids of Giza standing as ...

The world's smallest continent is on the move - creeping about 2.8 inches, or seven centimetres, a year towards southeast Asia.

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

The African continent is experiencing a geological change ... Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano, one of the most active lava lakes on Earth, offers critical insights into active geological processes like ...

The report, entitled Economic Implications of Data Regulation: Balancing Openness and Trust (1.54 MB) , notes how data flows have become the lifeblood of social and economic interactions. At the same ...

The East African Rift threatens to split the massive contient into two plates in the distant future, though geological events ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

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.

A team of scientists from Bowling Green State University are currently en route to Antarctica in search of groundbreaking new data that could play a key role in the future of climate research.