Even the criteria used to define a continent is fraught, with some geologists arguing for the existence of “Zealandia” and ...

The continent is also a country - but there are often misconceptions about the region it's a part of and how it's defined.

opaque liquid oceans)," they wrote, "we contend that Zealandia would, much earlier, have been investigated and identified as one of Earth's continents." The study's authors point out that while ...

One sunny spot in the southern hemisphere is both the smallest continent in the world and a country in its own right.

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

Middle-earth is huge, but is there more to Tolkien's world than just that one continent? The answer is yes, but since these other areas don't factor into the Lord of the Rings story very much ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists, a continent is a large area ... discovered various magnetic anomalies. One anomaly is of great interest to the ...

How hard can it be to film a nature documentary? These stories from Seven Worlds, One Planet tell all. Asia: The largest continent on Earth Seven Worlds, One Planet is back and episode two is ...

The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on ... Currently they slide, collide, and recede from one another at rates of 1-20 cm/year. They are driven by internal ...

Seven Worlds, One Planet is back, and episode two is about the largest and most populous continent on Earth: Asia. Asia is massive and covers around 30% of the Earth’s land area. No other ...

Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist, explained how the layout of our Earth will change over millions of years ...

An increasing number of luxurious expedition cruises and cruise-only voyages on larger liners has brought a surge of ...