RUBONDO Island National Park is a hidden gem in Tanzania, located on an island in Lake Victoria. It is a haven for wildlife ...

Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In ...

Towering above the Utah plateau at10,000 feet, the cliffs and canyon walls of Cedar Breaks National Monument reveal a story ...

In western India, strata of old rocks are providing a glimpse of what may have been a world of heat, a world of creeping continents, and one of giant .

Because of Earth’s weathering climate and shifting tectonics, impact craters regularly disappear from the Earth’s geologic record. Scientists in China found an impact crater that formed during the ...

A newly discovered crater in southern China is rewriting what scientists know about Earth’s recent encounters with space debris. Hidden within ancient granite and astonishingly well-preserved, the ...

Concord is widely known for another aspect of its history: It is intimately associated with the Transcendentalist movement in the quarter century before the Civil War. That distinction, too, it owes ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of high wildfire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. The occurrence of extreme fire weather is now roughly double compared ...

Beneath the dry and barren lands of southern Oregon’s Alvord Desert lie many traces of a vast Ice Age lake, along with the lasting marks of an ancient flood that dramatically altered this landscape, ...

For a while, the thin layer of plutonium that encircled the globe after the first nuclear weapons tests was considered the leading geological marker for a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, the ...