Researchers in Peru have considerably expanded the known footprint of Gran Pajatén, a pre-Hispanic settlement of the ...

Air quality in some parts of the United States is being compromised as smoke from dozens of wildfires in Canada travels south, pushed by winds high in the atmosphere. Air quality in Arrowhead, ...

With 174 active wildfires burning across Canada, several U.S. states are under air quality alerts due to the traveling smoke from these flames.

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans ...

Paleontologists assumed just one dinosaur egg type lay buried in Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation. Then they hit the jackpot.

Warmer winter temperatures have altered frost patterns and growing seasons across the United States, forcing botanical ...

Researchers from the University of Kansas have created a web-based app for the public that provides free satellite monitoring ...

Pine Hollow Arboretum is one of many botanical gardens rethinking their planting strategies as the climate warms. These ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

Southern Colorado’s San Juan Mountains are among the most rugged and scenic on the trail. In the Weminuche Wilderness, the ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Researchers on fieldwork in Tempelfjorden in August 2020. Photo: Richard Hann / NTNU. On a frozen landscape in Svalbard, ...