Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

Forget what you learned in elementary school — The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, Antarctica, Asia ...

Imagine if all the oceans suddenly vanished—could you just walk to other continents? Well, without water, you’d see giant valleys and rugged, rocky plains that were once the ocean floor, connecting ...

The first image here is not a bowl of spaghetti, though it may perhaps look like one. They are not ramen noodles nor elbow ...

“We’ve always labeled it, but we labeled it slightly ... While the other oceans are defined by the continents that fence them in, the Southern Ocean is defined by a current.

A study published in the journal One Earth explores how marine biodiversity conservation, human health and well-being are ...

Strange, you think the person labeled the ‘border czar’ would've had this endorsement all sewn up. She should've been a shoo-in, like me for best abs at the Teen Choice Awards. I got robbed.

A Canadian woman accused of killing three people in a span of a few days in separate slayings has been arrested, authorities said this week before labeling her a serial killer. Sabrina Kauldhar ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The rules vary from place to place, but the idea is to allow nature to flourish by limiting human activity as much as ...