Nauru, a tiny island country in Micronesia, was once one of the wealthiest nations in the world in terms of GDP per capita, ...

Baby loggerhead turtles “dance” when they are expecting food, a behaviour that researchers have used to investigate their navigation abilities. By learning to associate a magnetic field with a food, ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

Despite the aching legs and the stress of missed turns by the end of the trip, I was already thinking about where to bring my ...

The Greek island of Santorini was struck by the latest in a string of earthquakes Tuesday, this time a 4.8 temblor. The ...

Among a host of popular tourist areas proposed to be photographed through the Street View Project are Downtown Nassau and ...

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two ...

Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first ...

A new map reveals the world's shark bite hotspots, where the most people have been injured in unprovoked attacks.

Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands. Some you may well have heard of, such as Midway, for ...

Majorca and Menorca, the UK and Ireland - there are plenty of islands close together across the world. But no others have a time different quite like the Diomede Islands. The US-Russian border and ...

The era of console exclusivity continues to fade with remarks from Microsoft Games's master chief.