Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during ...

The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and ...

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

Researchers from Queen’s University analyzed unusual rocks from Greenland that had drifted to the west coast of Iceland as a ...

They also fire the imaginations of the young Lewis and his new friend Davy, a working-class boy from the shipyard area of the ...

The formation of the Great Lakes is the result of numerous geological events, the most recent of which involved massive Ice Age glaciers.

Sometimes they lead to changing laws. Some movements are peaceful, others turn violent. These books tell stories of people's experiences of racism and of those who put their bodies on the line for the ...

“As ice volume was greatly reduced, it caused a huge motion in Earth’s crust,” Yuan said in a statement. “Scientists knew ...

Part travelogue, part historical mystery and part memoir, “Into the Ice” will appeal to fans of extreme adventure stories, ...

“Into the Ice” will appeal to fans of extreme adventure stories, nearly all of whom will never sail a boat through the Northwest Passage. The travelogue moments of the book are the best ...