Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

It is easier to find your geographical middle if you only need to deal with one nation. Still, there are plenty of methods to ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Yunnan, in southwest China, is adding a new chapter to this global narrative, offering a distinctly Chinese flavor that is ...

Researchers identified the widespread presence of the ionophore resistance genes narA and narB in over 2,400 bacterial ...

In keeping with protocols, it is appropriate to end this drama of trading places with another conceit. At the end of the ...

The question "How many continents are there on Earth?" might seem simple, but when you delve into it, the answer becomes much more complex. While most people around the world are taught that there are ...

The concepts of continents have confused people from their very beginning. Today I try to see if I can do any better at dividing the world up into manageable units.

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 ...

Australia, which appears to be an unchanging continent, is imperceptibly migrating north towards Asia at a very unexpected pace. Scientists have established that the continent is shifting by 2.8 ...