An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

Hidden among Pennsylvania’s rolling hills and verdant forests lies McConnells Mill State Park, a 2,546-acre natural wonderland that somehow remains one of the state’s best-kept secrets despite its jaw ...

A trek through the Norwegian wilderness offers more than sweeping views, fjord swims to mountain climbs – Eliza Ketcher ...

Mera Peak is known as the world's highest trekking peak – but is that moniker at odds with the facts on the ground? Captain ...

There’s more than meets the eye to a geological peculiarity popular with hikers and mountain bikers behind Nanaimo.

Zanskar, located in the Ladakh region of India's mountain highlands, has felt the full force of glacier retreat. With no ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

A section of a trail in Banff National Park remains closed to visitors two weeks after a rockfall killed two hikers and ...

Indias top climbers carried a nuclear spying device up Nanda Devi for the CIA to watch Chinas atomic tests. Bad weather ...

Spying on glacial ice The signal showing Himalayan ice loss linked to rising temperatures would not be so clear if it weren’t for the U.S. spy satellites—KH-9 Hexagon military satellites from ...

In the Swiss Alpine resort of Kandersteg, officials have been closely monitoring a deteriorating mountain peak that towers ...