It is the time of year when our hemisphere turns its face from the sun and the Earth tilts us into short, cold days and long nights. A time when mainland television drama producers love to transpose ...

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

China recently approved the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. When fully up and running, it will be the world’s largest power plant–by some ...

On January 13, when an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s immense George VI Ice Shelf, scientists in a nearby research vessel did something nobody had ever done.

With a world-class art museum, 70 miles of hiking and biking trails, and a thriving culinary scene, Bentonville, Arkansas, ...

China recently approved the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

An international team of researchers took advantage of a rare chance encounter to explore a massive new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice shelf in the Bellingshausen Sea.

The Australian territory in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean was slapped with 10 percent tariffs on all its exports, despite the icy archipelago having zero residents — other than many seals ...