As wanderlust drives us toward increasingly off-the-beaten-path destinations, the number of passengers traveling on ...

"Sinkholes are most common in what geologists call, 'karst terrain'," the US Geological Survey explains. "These are regions ...

Polar scientist Felicity Ashton reflects on her fascination with exploration and shares lessons on survival, risk, and ...

As the New York Times reports, the event is an early warning sign of what's still to come as global warming is causing major changes in the Antarctic Peninsula. The iceberg, dubbed A23a ...

Antarctic sea ice has again fallen to a near-record low as a new study shows the system is undergoing a significant "structural change". Scientists have been using satellite images over the past ...

Our first target was an unusual layer of rocks known as the Antarctic Creek Member, which crops out on the flanks of a dome some 20 kilometres in diameter. The Antarctic Creek Member is only 20 ...

No Pressure, Says Abdulrazak Gurnah. But a full calendar meant carving out time for “Theft,” his new book and first since winning the prize. The Author of ‘The Help’ Wrote a Second Novel.

Last Sunday afternoon, I attended a town hall meeting. I’ll come back to it, but first you need to hear, if you haven’t already, about another one, the day before that, in Coeur d’Alene. The ...

In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden. By Jennifer Howard Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new ...

In the end, in the dark, it all came down to three things — experience, good judgment in the face of uncertainty, and penguin ...

In addition to helping scientists better understand Martian geology, she says the lake also offers insights into our own planet’s history. For instance, the microorganisms in the water have ...