By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ... But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected. They are often called Eurasia for ...

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

Imagine if all the oceans suddenly vanished—could you just walk to other continents? Well, without water, you’d see giant ...

If you went to school in the US or the UK, you probably learned that there are seven continents. But that number really depends on where you grew up. Elsewhere, you probably learned that there are ...

Since National Geographic began making maps in 1915, it has recognized four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic Oceans. However starting on June 8, World Oceans Day, it will ...

The ecosystems that produce half of the oxygen we breathe, and much of the planet's protein, have been pushed to the edge of destruction.

In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

The first image here is not a bowl of spaghetti, though it may perhaps look like one. They are not ramen noodles nor elbow macaroni either. If one looks closely, the east coast of North America is ...

The idea of a round-the-world connection between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia has long been on the minds of various individuals and media outlets. A Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical ...

Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist, explained how the layout of our Earth will change over millions of years ...

A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans ... It was a water world with just a few continents sticking out of the ...

With plans to expand ocean protection under the UN-endorsed biodiversity plan’s “30x30” target (which aims to protect 30% of the world’s land and oceans by 2030), it’s important to know ...