Less than a month later, a planned merger of Mid-Continent Airlines, which served Rochester, and American Airlines was reported. The merger, the Post-Bulletin said, “will put Rochester on the nation’s ...

Pope Leo XIV will make a 10-day trip through Africa visiting four countries in a trip seen as significant to Catholics in the continent.

There could be between 3,700 and 5,200 undiscovered bee species buzzing around in the world, according to a new study that offers a “treasure map” for finding new varieties of the pollinators. Bees ...

In 250 million years, Earth’s continents may merge into a supercontinent so extreme that most mammals would struggle to survive.

Remarkably, the shorelines of Africa and South America reflect each other almost perfectly, an extraordinary discovery that ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

The world has 195 recognised countries, but they are not evenly spread across continents. Some continents have dozens of ...

Zealandia, a vast submerged landmass beneath the Pacific near New Zealand, meets geological criteria for a continent. Scientists now recognize it as Earth’s eighth continent, reshaping our ...

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is on a yearslong mission to travel on foot from Ethiopia all the way to the southernmost tip of South America. And he’s documenting it all in Out of Eden ...

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 22 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's use of tariffs as a foreign policy tool added fresh impetus in Davos this week to efforts to boost global trade beyond the U.S., with ...

Historical maps are more than just artistic depictions of the world; they are time capsules that reveal how societies understood their place on Earth. These maps, each with its own story, offer a ...