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 ...

A new generation of ice-penetrating maps has turned the blank white of Antarctica into a richly contoured world of mountains, ...

Antarctica has long looked like a blank white smear on world maps, but new ultra detailed surveys are turning that blankness ...

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland's location between North America and Russia gives it ...

The U.S. State Department’s updated international travel page now features an interactive global advisory map showing countries listed under its higher-risk travel warning levels. The interactive map ...