I fear German power less than German inaction,” declared Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, in 2011, during Europe’s financial crisis. It was a remarkable statement coming from a Polish ...

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

7 continents of the world: The Earth consists of 71% and 29% of landmasses. These land masses are further divided into continents. The complicated geological process of plate tectonics led to the ...

The world is a big place, so realistically, most people probably can’t accurately label every single country on a map. But we ...

Retired teacher Doug Hill is just past the halfway of an ambitious three-year excursion around the globe to see 80 sporting ...

Samer Abouhamad has seen more of the world in three and a half years than most people will see in a lifetime — and he did it ...

The colors signify five continents: Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. According to Rule 8 of the Olympic ...

Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Two days after Christmas, the Times journalists Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee set sail from Christchurch, New Zealand, on a ...

A newly upgraded resort in Atlantic Canada offers an unusual combination of winter activities — and the chance to ski quiet slopes down to the sea.