Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably partial and subjective, ...

From Atlantis to Terra Australis, history is full of maps showing continents that never existed. These aren’t fantasy—they ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Two people died in a separate wildfire on 1 July in the Catalonia region, where Tarragona is located. In the south of France, ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

All together, that makes a wonderful, very human, mess. Back in the 1960s, the United States Geological Survey stated: “There ...

What began as a tire company's guide to boost travel in early 20th-century France evolved into the Michelin Guide, a global ...

Sunday reached 31C in parts of southeast England, but Tuesday will be even hotter, with highs of 35C in London and the south ...

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

A searing heatwave sweeping Europe has pushed temperatures above 40°C in parts of Italy and Spain, as the world’s ...

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