"The View from Glacier Point" is not the title of a painting by Bierstadt or a novel by John O’Hara. I am referring to the ...

Home to mighty glaciers, mirror-still lakes, tranquil meadows and ravishing peaks, Valais delivers Switzerland in widescreen.

There are designated areas in the U.S. where the night sky is so crystal clear that you can see the Milky Way galaxy ...

Earth scientists often face huge challenges when researching Earth's history: many significant events occurred such a long ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected witness to Earth’s distant past: tiny iron oxide stones called ooids. These mineral snowballs lock away traces of ancient carbon, revealing that oceans between ...

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, ...

On September 24, an international team of scientists set out on a pioneering ice-coring mission in Tajikistan rsquo;s Pamir ...

NASA’s Earth Observatory has captured Boston Harbor’s drumlin islands in a stunning new image, offering a rare glimpse into Earth’s glacial past. Formed over 20,000 years ago during the Wisconsin ...

Donald Trump is using Alaska and a proposed LNG pipeline to kickstart his fossil-fueled "National Energy Dominance" agenda. Alaskans are resisting.

You'd think there's nothing surprising left to discover about water. After all, researchers have been studying its properties for centuries.

Slightly delirious, but it’s supposed to be like this – we’re in Iceland at the equinox, and we are hunting trolls. So not ...