Meta — the company behind Facebook — just announced an ambitious plan to link five of the world’s continents to the internet with a data cable stretching over 30,000 miles along the ocean floor. Known ...

People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global geography over millions of years.

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

Take over the world ... map type option in Civilization 7, Continents Plus includes a pair of large landmasses as well as a ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

The world’s smallest continent is on a slow but steady journey ... Over time, this continental movement has affected Australia’s maps and GPS devices, which were about 1.5 metres out of ...

The updated dataset, released as part of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO), adds 1.4 million square kilometres of new seafloor information. "This release underscores the ...

Tanzania and some parts of Ethiopia would form a new continent – called ‘the Nubian continent’ – separated by the world’s sixth ocean. Ken MacDonald, a professor at the University of California, Santa ...

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner ... have also explained that the separation would likely make a new ocean, too. So back in 2005, a 35-mile ...

The world's biggest iceberg is on the loose and ... Known as A23a, the 1,400-square-mile iceberg had been stuck on the ocean floor near Antarctica for 37 years after splitting in 1986 from ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan ...