In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

A partial solar eclipse will be visible from the U.S. this weekend, but only a select few of the northernmost states are ...

Amid mounting global health concerns about PFAS, communities living along the waterway must grapple with how contamination is ...

The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and Ice Data Center said the peak measurement taken Saturday was 5.53 million ...

The collections include 99 per cent of Australia's native birds as well as exotic bird species, skeletons, mammals, reptiles ...

The Select Board on Wednesday unanimously voted to approve a proclamation for April to be Sexual Assault Awareness Month after Megan Sweeney — a community member, mother of three, domestic violence ...

I JUST sailed near the end of the earth closer to Antarctica than anywhere else through the tip of South America. This area ...

Atlas Ocean Voyages is assessing a new expedition ship design, as the high-end small ship operator prepares to broaden its ...

A NASA map shows the regions across the Northern Hemisphere where this weekend's partial solar eclipse will be visible, how ...