The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

From space colonies to imperial dreams, Donald Trump and Elon Musk offer a masterclass in misguided policy ambition.

With a waterfall twice the height of Niagara, the longest remote hiking trail in North America, and a population of just ...

The Earth was trembling every 90 seconds. Now, we know why.

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The head of Denmark's Arctic command said the prospect of a U.S. takeover of Greenland was not keeping him up at night after ...

The Pentagon is poised to shift its oversight of Greenland by putting it under U.S. Northern Command, a symbolic gesture that would more closely align the island territory with the U.S. as ...

Greenland is larger than any American state, but 80% of it is buried beneath an ice sheet. Almost 90% of the nearly 60,000 people who live there are Inuit, descendants of the Thule who reached the ...

The Pentagon's move to shift its oversight of Greenland under U.S. Northern Command aligns with President Trump’s pledge to take control of the autonomous Danish territory.