J.R.R. Tolkien, one of the greatest fantasy authors of our time, wrote this in a letter to a fellow novelist, discussing the genesis of his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings: "I wisely started with a ...
The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago.
Where some cities fade away with time, others are deliberately erased and destroyed. Deep within Central Asia, a chilling ...
Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.
Consistent with earlier observations, South Asia remains one of the most pollution-affected regions globally. Major urban ...
New Antarctica map reveals a landscape of hidden valleys and channels beneath ice, improving sea-level rise and ice flow ...
Scientists have produced the most detailed map yet of the terrain beneath Antarctica's ice sheet, revealing a spectacular ...
Far below the frozen surface of Antarctica, scientists are uncovering a landscape that looks less like a featureless ice cap and more like a buried continent, complete with mountains, valleys, rivers ...
A new generation of ice-penetrating maps has turned the blank white of Antarctica into a richly contoured world of mountains, ...