From world-class whale watching to oysters shucked at their source, there is a fascinating mix of culture, wildlife, and ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

Massive mounds of conch shells have been towering near Anegada in the British Virgin Islands for hundreds of years.

Traveling in the smartphone era can often feel like checking boxes, but not in these often overlooked destinations.

If the crowds are getting a bit much, then it’s high time you took a trip to the Channel Islands National Park, an ...

Catch up on the latest travel advisories for the most popular island destinations throughout the Caribbean amid peak travel ...

Some islands magically appeared on the horizon, only to mysteriously disappear. Early maps became populated with islands floating in the oceans that, in the end, did not exist—as far as is known.

The group also worked with National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas project, an initiative to protected 20 of the ocean's wildest places by 2020. Ascension Island will be the 22nd marine ...

See Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP) for related data. Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

Trees species like red cedar, today found much farther south in places like Vancouver Island, dotted the landscape. Fragments of DNA from horseshoe crabs, which today thrive in the warm Gulf ...

In a sobering presentation at the 39th meeting of the Association of Caribbean Chiefs of Police (ACCP), newly appointed Turks ...