Let's talk about what it feels like to be over 15,000 feet high, because honestly, we're (humans) not meant to be up there ...

Did you know that a desert doesn't have to be hot or sandy? In fact, many of the world's harshest deserts are freezing cold. There are about 33 central deserts worldwide. They cover one-fifth of the ...

Antarctica is known for being a rather inhospitable place, what with its extreme cold, violent winds, and low levels of water – it is technically a desert. Much of continent also sits at high altitude ...

Court summons against Reginald D Hunter quashed for seeking to have him ‘cancelled’ The highly-contagious virus spreading in the UK – and it’s not the flu Cars collide at intersection and separate ...

Ancient Antarctic Sea Monster May Have Laid This Football-Size Egg. A 68 million-year-old egg the size of a football — the largest soft-shelled egg on record and the second largest egg ever discovered ...

A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the migrant crisis continued, and demonstrations became ever more violent. But there were also incredible moments of sporting glory and light relief. Photographers rec ...

Around the world, rising temperatures and erratic weather are forcing animals to adapt in startling ways – with consequences ...

THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...

That ethos continued in 1993, when Damon and Deanne Howes headed into the wilds of south-western Tasmania (Issue 36, Oct–Dec ...

Remains of a new dicynodont species dating back over 250 million years link China and South Africa, suggesting passage of ...

A little over a century ago, some grizzly bears still roamed the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains that ring the northern boundaries of Sunland. That is, until a disgruntled farmer killed the ...