The changes are most visible in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia. Scientists say that the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea may flood this region.

The term "subcontinent" also reflects India's diversity, with over 1.4 billion people and dozens of languages spoken.

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The "millions of viewers" watching the Super Bowl are largely English-speaking U.S. residents who see North and South America ...

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

The world is a big place, so realistically, most people probably can’t accurately label every single country on a map. But we ...

The historian Barbara Tuchman viewed the map of history as a lattice work of marches of folly. Mark Carney recently warned we ...

Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

An analysis from Data Centre Map, a global data centre directory, shows that South Africa leads Africa with 60 data centres, followed by Nigeria with 22 and Kenya with 19. But most of these centres ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...