Cook Islands deal has implications for Pacific security, but particularly for New Zealand, the United States, and Australia.

At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...

It’s a small world. It’s a wide world. Both phrases are used in lyrics, titles and more. A more accurate statement might be: Earth’s circumference (at the equator) is 24,901 ...

Winter won’t end until late March in the U.S., but travelers craving warmer days can head to the Southern Hemisphere in the meantime.

The mission of the Department of Physical Geography is to be at the forefront of research in Earth Surface Dynamics. Our knowledge and understanding of Earth’s continental and coastal systems ...

1. June 21 is the longest day of the year for anyone living north of the Equator. This day is referred to as the summer solstice, and it occurs when the Sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer, or ...

How much do you know about one of the most mysterious places on Earth? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Despite advancements ...

What about geography? How did that play a role in the sounds that birds are making? Specifically, the latitude at which the species occur played an interesting role. What we found was that at the ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...

Dinosaurs may have first evolved close to the equator, not in the far south of the southern hemisphere as previously thought. A modelling study suggests they originated in a region that covers ...