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 ...

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Chef Fimy Ishkhanian has taken Northern Liberties by storm with Apricot Stone, a laid-back BYOB restaurant offering a fusion ...

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

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

The NFL's international games, such as the Panthers and Giants facing off in Munich, have helped to build American football's ...

While Britain, Argentina, Australia, Norway, France, New Zealand and Chile have long held territorial claims over the vast ...

A landmass which was once home to up to half a million people has been discovered off the coast of northern Australia. The ...

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 ...

A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...