Facing growing chaos, the European Union and numerous other countries are seeking to forge a global trading nexus that is ...

Imagine a South America dramatically reshaped by the complete melting of Earth's ice caps. This video explores the potential transformation of the continent’s geography, highlighting submerged ...

Solar flares can affect us on Earth, and radiation from this flare caused a shortwave radio blackout. A map released by the ...

As one historian told Mental Floss, the map of South America “was a fiction forged by the British intelligence service.” ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Map of South America. South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. The Pacific Ocean is to the ...

The map represents a flawed understanding of New World geography, such as picturing California as an island. Many maps of the Americas were produced during the period of exploration and colonial ...

On the map, the unexplored continent of North America is called “Parias," while the newly christened America describes the South American coast all the way down to the present-day port of ...

Chile is poised to create it's 47th national park in the coming year, protecting wilderness at the southern tip of South America. That's thanks in large part to the work of a U.S. conservationist ...

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake was recorded on Friday, May 2, off the southern coasts of Argentina and Chile, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Though it has some of the world's most significant reserves, Latin America has not emerged as a key player in the rare earth race.