The president-elect said he covets Greenland for its size. He could be misinterpreting it based on well-known mapping ...

Certain parts of the globe are so unwelcoming that even a brief stay can lead to severe consequences for your health.

Geographical exploration is a type of quest, the objective being to discover remote lands. One major era, in the history of ...

Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the ...

Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ...

Bir Tawil is a 2,060-square-kilometer stretch of desert in Africa that no country claims. Between Egypt and Sudan, this ...

Ghana’s once-thriving Upper Guinean forests are in peril, with human activity, fires, and economic pressures threatening ...

The PCC is taking over illegal gold mining in the Amazon and corrupting Indigenous cultures in a spiral of violence in some ...

In southwestern Ghana, a patchwork of tropical forest lies among widespread farmland dotted with towns. These forest fragments are remnants of the Upper Guinean forest of West Africa, a biodiversity ...

Africa could one day be 'split into two' after a huge crack ... For those who didn't pay attention in geography, this is the movement of the Earth's crust as the plates grind into each other on the ...