From the soaring mountains of the Andes to the Pampas of Argentina, from the indigenous Indian population to the descendants of European colonists, South America’s diversity includes geography ...

Upon the bright, alluring map of South America, the Europe-neglected Guianas are a disgraceful little smudge. *3900 mi. the Nile, 4000 mi., is longest. More Must-Reads from TIME.

That is understandable — feeling like [map of South America] is not the most relatable feeling in the world — although 22,000 Twitter users (and counting) saw fit to retweet this little one ...

This 1912 map uses the Mercator projection, which inflates the size of land near the poles such that Greenland appears to be the same size as South America when in fact it is only one-eighth as ...

Map of South America showing the change in the number of days of simultaneous heat, dryness, and fire risk between the periods 1971–2000 and 2001–2022. This is Fig 1a from the published paper.

Viper’s DNA Reveals Ancient Map of South America. Although vipers are famous for their venomous bites, it turns out these snakes have another story to tell. Abigail Eisenstadt.