Kings Canyon, deeper than the Grand Canyon, offers stunning views but remains less visited due to its remote location.

Most meetings reward the loudest and quickest voices. Fast talkers dominate, while more reflective thinkers get sidelined. Ideas are judged not by their substance but by the confidence with which they ...

A long-lost photo snapped from a Navy plane in 1966 has become the unlikely key to understanding how Antarcticas ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

During the last Ice Age,roughly between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago, the Earth was dramatically different from today. Vast ...

The five newest National Recreation Trails in six states add nearly 400 miles to the network of more than 1,300 trails.

Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They ...

Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They share favorite segments.

In New England, the name Norumbega still features on streets and buildings. But did this shining indigenous community ever exist?

Ole Ginnerup Schytz, an engineer in Denmark’s sleepy Vindelev agricultural area, had used a metal detector only a handful of times when he found a bent clump of metal in a friend’s barley field. At ...

It reveals that people inhabited glacial terrains during the last ice age—a period typically associated with coastal refuges." ...

Human presence in high-altitude open areas during the Ice Age is not just a possibility, but a reality, Marta Sánchez de la Torre writes ...