When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

The split between South America and Africa 135 million years ago was a fiery affair, new research finds. The continental breakup spewed over 3.8 million cubic miles (16 million cubic kilometers) of ...

In October 2024, at the most recent BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the countries of the “global South” ...

It is likely that we get a trade war of some kind until negotiations produce a compromise — but that could take months if not ...

Machetes have caught a bad rap over the years. When most of us think of a machete, we imagine Jason Voorhees wielding one on ...

Mr Trump’s move confirms America’s abdication as guardian of the global trade system. After the second world war America ...

In 2024, there were so many books by California authors whose influence reached beyond the region and reverberated across the ...

A group of South African business and labour leaders met with US officials in Washington, DC last week to assess how fraught ...

The IMF and World Bank are navigating a precarious landscape as they advocate for their relevance amidst President Trump's ...

Elon Musk and his political operatives have tried to shape the closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race in ways that are ...

In Chicago, Boystown — with its mix of cocktail lounges, gay bars, nightclubs, parades and drag brunches — has become a ...