From Earth orbit, our planet sometimes reveals landscapes that evoke abstract paintings more than geographical maps. Behind ...

With over 195 countries on our planet, the world is a pretty strange place if you think about it. Every country is vastly ...

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to extinction can help us adapt to our ownchanging climate.

The year was 1982. As I was on the verge of entering the world, my grandparents undertook a pilgrimage to Jordan and Israel — a popular pursuit among Irish Catholics eager to explore sites documented ...

The majority of Antarctica is covered in a thick sheet of ice, but what lies beneath its frozen surface has largely remained ...

A high-resolution groundwater map shows how underground water varies across the U.S., with new insights for agriculture and ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

A high-resolution groundwater map shows how underground water varies across the U.S., with new insights for agriculture and ...

Scientists have discovered there is more to Antarctica than meets the eye. A new map of the landscape beneath the frozen continent's ice sheet has revealed a previously hidden world of mountains, deep ...

The team used satellite imagery, computer modeling, and an array of different methods to map the ice sheets and glacial flows ...

Chris Erik Thomas reviews the group exhibition ‘Arts of the Earth’ at Guggenheim Bilbao as part of our featured topic ...