Geography

In October 2011, a radio astronomy telescope called the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, built by Eur ...

There are more than 500 species of plants, characterized by their remarkable adaptability to the extreme environment. 

Almost 70 percent of the country's land area is covered by forests, most of which are managed and regulated by the state. Virgin forests occur only in the northernmost mountain regions.

Fifteen million years ago it was part of continental Europe. The western parts of the island are an ...

Their number is impressive, as there are approximately 25.000 of them. For comparison, there are onl ...

It is the only state that is located entirely on islands and the only one located in the intertropic ...

It is part of a national park, a special protection area, included in the area of ​​Mount Fuji, belo ...

At the current rate of tectonic plate movement, the Galapagos Islands will collapse into the Peru-Chile Trench (a deep-sea trench in the eastern Pacific Ocean) in about 20 million years.

Gold, silver, coltan (tantalum and niobium ore used in electronics manufacturing), oil and natural g ...

These included the films: Tarzan (1966-69), Mr. Magoo (1997), Miami Vice (2006), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Captain America: Civil War (2016), and Black Panther (2018).