This fall brings new fiction from CanLit stalwarts and international heavy-hitters, along with plenty of fiction that ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s ...

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.

The destruction of nature is a global crisis. Establishing protected areas of forest is a common policy governments use to ...

Since the advent of geobrowser Google Earth, a number of strange and mysterious things around the globe are visible.

The Vendée Globe aims to use the media impact of the event to raise public awareness of ocean conservation throughout the round-the-world race. By sailing around the world, the Vendée Globe sailors ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of a puzzling seismic disturbance. First, there was an avalanche. Then, there was a ...

It took about 70 people from 15 different countries and more than 8,000 exchanged messages to crack the case.