Imagine a South America dramatically reshaped by the complete melting of Earth's ice caps. This video explores the potential ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Have you ever looked at a map and wondered why there are almost no direct flights or shipping routes between Australia and Chile, despite both countries being relatively close across the South Pacific ...

Inflammatory bowel disease, which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, has long been considered a modern ...

Researchers in Peru have considerably expanded the known footprint of Gran Pajatén, a pre-Hispanic settlement of the ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

Suriname’s oil future looms large as the nation faces a political transition and rising foreign interest in its oil reserves. Suriname is a small country located on the northeastern shoulder of South ...

A constant fixture of National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek’s journey through rural Japan was the whirligig, or as he ...

On Sunday, May 25, an EF-1 tornado ripped through Puerto Varas in southern Chile in South America. It’s estimated that 50-60 ...

A remarkably well-preserved fossil found in Spain is the most complete stegosaur skull ever discovered in Europe.

Global maps that depict gradations of psychological traits often conceal as much as they reveal. Here’s a guide for savvy map ...

Produced by the New York cartography firm of F. & R. Lockwood, “The Travellers’ Tour Through the United States” was an ...