It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good ...

In their pursuit of knowledge about the natural world, 16th-century scientists saw few boundaries between experiment and ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The decision has sparked controversy among world leaders ...

While President Donald Trump’s offer to buy Greenland may have faded from the public’s attention amid other news since he ...

As destination and dream, the North Pole has few peers, and of those whose dreams led them there, Erling Kagge has few peers ...