Geomorphologist and veteran climber Ludovic Ravanel is learning how Mont Blanc is shifting—and sharing his discoveries with the Alpine community ...
Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to California ...
A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered ...
Experts on the hunt for the queen's tomb believe that they’ve found a small bust of her—but not everyone agrees ...
The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...
The death of a Louisiana resident who was over the age of 65 signals that future H5N1 infections are not guaranteed to be ...
Piece by piece, experts carefully transported the Phoenician vessel to dry land, where it will be studied and preserved ...
During World War II, the crew of the Zaida were among the everyday Americans who risked their lives watching out for enemy ...
How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras ...
In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...
Several inches of snowfall kept the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute closed to visitors this week. But the animals and their caretakers still had a good time!
Four decades after the fall of Argentina’s dictatorship, a fight over the country’s darkest chapter is reopening grievous ...