June's heatwave has caused French Alps snow and glaciers to melt faster, causing water shortages at mountain shelters just ...

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.

Antarctica has hidden beneath its great mantle of ice and snow an impressive geological feature among many other things. This ...

The Tour de France resumes on Wednesday at stage 11 with still close to a fortnight left of racing to come and the ...

With over 45 years of uninterrupted data, scientists at Niwot Ridge in Boulder County are documenting changes in alpine ...

Scientists say a new epicenter is forming for the deadliest storm zone in the U.S. Here’s where people are now most at risk ...

The Yukon Territory glows—but not with city lights. “Everywhere you look is like a painting” here, with auroras that last for ...

Over the last 3,800 years, agro-pastoral activities have accelerated alpine soil erosion at a pace four to 10 times faster ...

Three new types of frogs were discovered during off-road scientific expeditions in the remote cloud-shrouded peaks of the ...

The Great Dividing Range is one of the world’s longest and most fascinating mountain ranges, stretching across Australia from Queensland to Victoria. Unlike many mountain ranges that are the result of ...

This dino-mite find, which Hagadorn described as "quite the cherry" on top of the project's intended mission, was discovered ...