A new map of Antarctica’s seafloor reveals a vast and previously overlooked network of 332 submarine canyons, some plunging ...

In the coming six months, Belarusian polar explorers will live on a mysterious and hard-to-reach ice continent – conducting numerous ...

Nuclear power has a lot of potential when it comes to clean energy, but what happens to the waste? It depends, because not ...

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ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — The planetarium and geology museum at Augustana College will be hosting an open house this weekend. The John Deere Planetarium and Fryxell Geology Museum will be open to the public ...

Recent reports have unveiled a remarkable discovery in the icy expanses of Antarctica: a colossal 4,000-foot pyramid-like ...

You do not have to be a climate expert or atmospheric pandit to claim that Nepal is not pulling its weight on the grand ...

Many people in the English-speaking world would have learned in school that there are seven continents: Asia, Africa, North ...

Safford, his team and this writer are in the Inyo National Forest in the Southern Sierra Nevada mountains, more than 11,000 ...

For the Congo Basin and Borneo, these are the first-ever comprehensive scientific assessments, synthesizing knowledge across disciplines and regions. For the Amazon, this is the second assessment ...