At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

Radio New Zealand reported that the settlement acknowledges the British Crown’s 1865 confiscation of the mountain and nearly half a million hectares of land. As part of the agreement, Mount Egmont ...

The "story of states such as Wyoming is a story of displacement," and "state legislators throughout the West have tended to work in unholy alliance with wealthy real estate lobbies," says Sasha ...

A doll resembling a Showa-era schoolchild stands at the entrance. DAIGO, Ibaraki — Daigo Oyaki School, a tourist facility that has been renovated from an abandoned school building deep in the ...

The Chicxulub asteroid, for example, pushed the Earth into the Cenozoic Era, and 65 million years later, experts are pondering if we’ve entered a new geologic age induced by modern humans (and ...

President William McKinley may never have set foot in Alaska but one of President Donald Trump’s first executive actions upon reentering the White House was to reestablish its most famous mountain — ...

Among other mandates, the Clinton-era order entailed consistent enforcement of all health and environmental statutes, along with improved research of the well-being of “minority and low-income ...

The Palisades fire has burned almost 24,000 acres through the Pacific Palisades and into the Santa Monica Mountains. The burn area covers several popular hiking spots, including Temescal Canyon ...

Justine Calma is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast ...

From the outside, it looks like a fairly standard, 1970s-era mountain hut. But inside it’s cosy and charming, with wood-lined walls decorated with ski racer jerseys, and traditional red and ...

The term ‘Dark Ages’ has been rejected by a growing number of historians, but there is still much from this era that remains difficult to bring to the light. This includes a clear definition and ...