A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

Many people think Africa is a country but it’s a continent with 54 diverse nations. From Nigeria to Egypt to South Africa, each country has its own unique culture, languages, and history. Africa is a ...

Bananas from the tropics, apples from temperate zones, pineapples from volcanic islands—fruits grow where climate, soil, and ...

Governor Ron DeSantis passed a bill to formally adopt the "Gulf of America" as an official designation, placing the Trump administration's rebranding in state agencies and public school classrooms.

Minnesota may be known for its accent and music icon Prince, but the state is also home to pristine national and state parks, ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

As a child, Weinberg freshman Diego Guerrero had a puzzle of the world that he would build over and over again, he said. Although Northwestern’s geography department shuttered in August 2024, Guerrero ...

The Houthi youth cannot believe what he is reading. Positive messages have emerged from the Iranian-American meeting in Muscat. He had never expected that the supreme leader would allow Foreign ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

Imagine the dramatic reshaping of the continents if North America suddenly vanished beneath the waves. Today it feels like ...

Historically, there have been four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. On Feb. 9, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced the Gulf of Mexico had officially been changed to ...