Why is Australia part of the world’s most overlooked region? Or is it a continent? From the hidden landmass of Zealandia to ...

Despite its widespread biodiversity, Australia holds an unenviable record when it comes to wildlife: the highest mammalian ...

Scientists have drawn up the most accurate map of Antarctica, offering background to the continent’s response to climate change.

A landmass which was once home to up to half a million people has been discovered off the coast of northern Australia. The now-submerged continental shelf was a vast, habitable landscape for much of ...

When New Scientist reporter James Woodford was assigned to a story about a virus designed to kill rabbits, he never expected to be accused of spreading it ...

During the age of steamships, Colombo port was one of the busiest stopovers on the global maritime map. 'Colombo: Port of ...

In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, the outgoing Colombian president argues the war on drugs has failed and fires back ...

Inside the convoluted history of Walker Island, a supposed landmass near Hawaii, that has mysteriously disappeared from modern maps.

A joint Australian-British expedition has discovered the true source of the Oxus River in the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan in the mountains above ...

How the little-known atoll of Diego Garcia is becoming another flashpoint in the global contest between the U.S. and China ...

Add that on top of the Ukraine war and the ripple effects on air routes, cruises and major Gulf events are getting too big to ignore. So this isn’t an attempt to analyse the conflict itself – it’s ...

For the first time, Colossal BioSciences unveiled its Dallas labs where it is spending millions of dollars researching how to revive extinct animals and save endangered ones.