For ancient seafarers, the ocean was a place of ... Some islands magically appeared on the horizon, only to mysteriously disappear. Early maps became populated with islands floating in the oceans ...

A mysterious ancient ... sits directly south of Argentina, holds enough ice to raise sea levels by 10 feet. Some of that ice is bound to melt as climate change bakes the South Pole, but climate ...

North wasn’t always “up” on world maps. North doesn't always mean "up" when it comes to geophysics. Scientists have known for ...

The pay-off for the early explorers in taking this very long way down was being able to land near a mammoth ice shelf, known to them as The Great Barrier. The size of France, with an 800-kilometre ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago.

“Their leverage and ability to make a difference in terms of foreign policy,” she explained, “is backed up by the money that they bring, and in the Global South that money is primarily the ...

The Southern Frontier begins in the years between 1839 and 1841 with the visits of the great navigators who were, among other things, searching for the south magnetic pole. The colonial denizens of ...

I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you? These biographies for kids are inspirational narrative nonfiction texts that ...

Robert Shwartzman made history Sunday at Indianapolis Speedway becoming the first rookie in more than 40 years to win the pole for the Indy 500. Shwartzman posted the fastest four-lap average in ...

By John Eligon Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Erica L. Green A visit by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa to the White House took a contentious turn on Wednesday as President Trump showed him ...