We know Aotearoa New Zealand is home to many geographically and biologically special features. Yet few of us know it also has ...

A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

Surface and depth have formed important elements in John Luther Adams’s music – whether in conveying the unforgiving landscapes of the Arctic and the Sonoran Desert in compositions such as In the ...

Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s ...

A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field. A team of geologists has found for the first time evidence ...

Researchers studying the deep biosphere, Earth’s largest ecosystem, have found evidence that life thriving miles below the ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

If you want a Michigan trip that feels less crowded and more memorable, these underrated places offer wild scenery, history, ...

"Fire of Love" director Sara Dosa returns with a much colder but equally beautiful film about the first glacier to "die" from climate change. A nature doc mixed with autobiography, “Time and Water” is ...

Rocky Falls Shut-ins near Winona, Missouri, is one of those magical places that makes you wonder why you’ve been driving past ...

Highway 46 snakes through some of the most pristine forest you’ll find anywhere in southern Oregon, climbing steadily into ...

What was the West like a thousand years ago, a million years ago — even a billion years ago? And how is that history still visible and consequential today? These were the driving questions behind the ...