It has also burned 12.35 million acres of land and destroyed 1,400 homes. The following maps show where new wildfires, under 12 hours old, were burning in Australia on Thursday afternoon.

As seen in the map above, using data from the U.S. Geological Survey, Australia benefits from a substantial mineral endowment. Australia is home to numerous deposits of rare earths like xenotime ...

Peer straight across the ocean from the Newfoundland coast and you might imagine that, were humans able to walk on water, you could skip a straight line all the way to France.But it turns out that ...