Colonial explorers started describing continents and countries across the world for their own interests of conquering new ...

For more than half a billion years, a giant magnetic anomaly buried in Earth’s ancient rocks has puzzled scientists. The ...

The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

Through Google Earth’s lens, we retrace the dramatic Fall of Constantinople in 1453. In just one minute, we chart the city’s imposing walls, the Ottoman siege led by Mehmed II, and the moment the ...

On the west side of Olympic National Park, the Hoh Rain Forest receives up to 170 inches of rain each year, creating a world blanketed in moss, ferns, and mist. Often described as a real-life fairy ...

An active weather week ahead with repeat frontal genesis from a broad trough extending south from the Gulf of Alaska through ...

The glow of the moon will even cast faint shadows on the ground, a rare effect visible only during the most intense ...

The case began way back in 2002 with the extraordinary collapse of an ice shelf called Larsen B in the eastern Antarctic ...

There are evenings in the cultural life of a city that carry the weight of tectonic movement — slow, monumental, ...

The Bay Area will receive a solid dousing this week from the region’s first atmospheric river of the rainy season, according ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice on Earth—an incredible six million years old—deep in the frozen expanse of East Antarctica. The ice, along with ancient air bubbles trapped ...

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2026? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on Environment and ...