That’s 20 minutes of my life I’ll never get back, as I tried to work through enough facts to debunk his strange belief.

Maps sit quietly in classrooms, on news websites and inside phone screens. They look settled and precise, but the world they show is always slightly bent out of shape. Because the Earth is round, any ...

A major ice storm is moving across South Carolina, with some areas expecting over three-quarters of an inch of ice. Widespread power outages and near-impossible travel conditions are expected to last ...

Forecasters point out that these amounts are not final, and snowfall totals will depend on the exact track of the storm. That track is still uncertain, but the odds are increasing for a heavier hit to ...

President Donald Trump is hoping to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory covering more than 836,000 square miles —three times the size of Texas, with about 80% covered by a massive ice cap.

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland’s location between North America and Russia gives it ...

The surprising true sizes of countries around the world. Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado Border Patrol commander returns to Chicago as agents deploy pepper balls ...

Almost 100,000 people around the world played an online map projection game that asked them to judge land areas. Their guesses showed that most people’s inner picture of the planet is closer to ...

Geographical challenges have long influenced the development of geometry. Ancient Greek mathematicians like Thales and Ptolemy were also geographers, and later, geometers such as Gauss and Laplace ...