W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...

Greenland is often touted as the world's largest island that is not a continent, boasting an impressive area of over 836,000 square miles. However, this number can be misleading depending on the map ...

On many world maps, Greenland and Africa can look almost the same size. But the reality is very different. Africa covers an ...

Currently, the three largest countries in Africa by land area are Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and ...

Traditional solar fails in the windswept north. Two Swedish inventors are betting on aerodynamic resilience to solve the ...

After years of speculation, oceanographers have finally confirmed the existence of a massive, hidden body of water sitting ...

Boyd’s story isn’t about medals or records. It’s a story of transformation: a businessman turned socio-economic activist, a Guinness World Record holder who views his Cape to Cairo run not as a ...

Dick Smith grins as though he’s getting away with something. “Towing the iceberg into Sydney Harbour, jumping the ...

El Nino conditions in spring have historically come with a higher risk of very dry weather over that time frame.

Keith Boyd doesn’t do things halfway. At 59, he ran from Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront all the way to Cairo, clocking 301 brutal ...

Tucked away in Waldorf, Maryland sits a secondhand paradise where time seems to stand still while shopping carts fill up – ...

Scientists have discovered there is more to Antarctica than meets the eye. A new map of the landscape beneath the frozen ...