There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on ...

Taking to website Reddit one member enthused that they’d lived in five countries, on three different continents and in five famous cities - but just one gets their enthusiastic seal of approval.

"The two continents were continuous along that narrow stretch, so that animals on either side of that connection could potentially move across it." The study found that the majority of the fossil ...

A team of paleontologists found matching dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean. The footprints, dating back to the Early Cretaceous ...

Veteran administrator Sumod Damodar will return to the influential Chief Executives' Committee after winning the election for ...

For billions of years, the continents have cruised across Earth’s surface like tectonic vessels, but they have not survived unscathed. Waves in the underlying layer known as the mantle can scour ...

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While sparse data makes accurate measurement difficult, most would agree violence and lawlessness are increasing in many parts of PNG. The broader context for this violence includes: rural decay ...

The region was considered to be Earth's eighth continent before the majority of it got lost under the sea. Over 300 years later, Zealandia was found and experts were able to create a map of it ...

The international investigations team at The Washington Post is tackling the issue of transnational repression — an urgent ...

The Papua New Guinean (PNG) government has enlisted the help of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to ferry Pope Francis to the remote town of Vanimo in far northwest Sepik province when he tours the ...

U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries that allow direct-to-consumer drug advertising, with companies spending over $1 billion monthly. FDA's attempts to regulate drug ads have been thwarted by ...