This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The world’s next country?” ...

Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Loren Munk is unmissable. Dressed in white bespeckled painter’s pants, this 73-year-old artist shambles into New York’s ...

If oceans didn’t exist and there was only land between continents, traveling around the world would look very different! We’d likely have huge, continuous landscapes with forests, deserts, mountains, ...

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

Alfred Wegener Institute and TU Bergakademie FreibergRoughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were ...

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. A team of ...