Costa Rica is a small but stunning country in Central America, located between Nicaragua (north) and Panama (south). It is ...

In February 2025, an unrelenting high-pressure system sent temperatures soaring across South America. Rio de Janeiro sizzled ...

Japan uses the term Sea of Japan to refer to the body of water separating it from the Korean Peninsula; South Korea calls it ...

Thousands of power outages were reported Saturday as a deadly severe weather outbreak moved across the Midwest and South.

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

Read a selection of story and non-fiction books about life in different countries and places within South America and add them to a class map. Find Rio de Janeiro on a map. Do a virtual visit to ...

The massive annual spring migration of America's birds – millions of them – is underway. Here's how to follow along at home.

Below, a map created using 2022 data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows the deposits of rare earth elements located in Latin America and the Caribbean. USGS lists all known rare earth ...

Here's how to witness North America's only total lunar eclipse of the year on March 13-14, 2025, its best until 2029.

Because of its small size, South Padre Island is often grouped with other towns along the Gulf Coast of Texas, such as Port Isabel and Brownsville, both of which make great daytrips. The town of ...

Governments frequently disagree over the names of places. Here’s how mapping apps have dealt with various feuds.

It stretches for roughly 1,200 miles from Texas to Florida where it ends at the Everglades, 2 million acres of wetlands across central and south Florida. RELATED: The Americas Takes Viewers to the ...