A chance discovery on Holy Island reveals how a 350-million-year-old marine fossil became part of medieval legend.

Socotra Island is one of the most unique and isolated places on Earth. Known for its extraordinary landscapes, distinctive ...

President Donald Trump's desire for the U.S. to acquire Greenland highlights the growing importance of minerals to an ...

The world's remotest inhabited place, Tristan da Cunha, is the setting for the Berlinale feature 'Tristan Forever,' directed ...

There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed. The ...

Greenland's mineral and strategic importance is dominating headlines. However, what's beneath its ice in detail?

Following Trump’s invasion threat, Greenlanders and Danes confront serious questions about sovereignty and security ...

Manomet Conservation Sciences and the Tybee Island Marine Science Center hosting the Second Annual Tybee Shorebird Festival through Saturday.

The NGT’s Great Nicobar clearance exposes a contradiction between its strong environmental rhetoric and its willingness to defer to “strategic importance” despite documented ecological, seismic, and ...

Welcome to Edition 8.30 of the Rocket Report! As I write this week’s edition, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is undergoing a second countdown rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The outcome ...

Far beneath the waters surrounding Sri Lanka lies a largely unseen frontier, a deep seabed that may contain cobalt, nickel and rare earth elements essential to modern technologies, from smartphones to ...

After posting images of the stone on a fossil identification page on Facebook, she came to the conclusion that it was an ancient marine mammal called a crinoid.