While there are rare earth deposits around the world, China dominates the global supply chain ... When the researchers started to plot occurrences of carbonatites on a map of lithosphere thickness, ...

Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run ... In the case of Africa, two fragments of the lithosphere are slowly separating—the Nubian plate ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.