Geography

Equatorial forests are home to 250 species of fruit trees, while temperate zone forests have only 20. The forests of New Guinea alone produce 251 species of trees with edible fruit.

These small carnivorous mammals were introduced to control the population of snakes (Bothrops lanceo ...

The crater of Vesuvius on the cone of Gran Cono is only 15 kilometers from the center of Naples. In ...

The second most spoken language is Spanish. One Native American language still spoken in the state is the Colorado River Numic language, known as the Ute dialect.

It is made of ancient, Precambrian granites that emerged pushed up by magma between 4,5 billion and 540 million years ago.

Since 1970, groups of volunteers have been combing the forest in search of people who have already t ...

The first volcanic activity on Etna took place about 500,000 years ago, with eruptions occurring und ...

In the north, the taiga is adjacent through the sparse trees(transition zone) to the tundra (a treel ...

Tremors are almost a daily occurrence here. Typically, a small earthquake occurs in Hawaii every 3.5 ...