Category: Earth

On the eve of the summer solstice, something very worrying happened in the Arctic Circle. For the first time in recorded history, temperatures reached 38°C (101°F) in a remote Siberian...

John Vanderlyn: Landing of Columbus The toppling of statues at Black Lives Matter protests has powerfully articulated that the roots of modern racism lie in European colonisation and slavery. Racism...

Snowshoe hares are moving further into the Arctic. Dee Carpenter Originals / shutterstock The current heatwave in the Arctic, with temperatures reaching 38℃ in some parts of northern Siberia, is...

The naming of many saber-toothed species—the most famous being the genus Smilodon, or the saber-toothed cat—sounds like a bit of a macabre joke. The pearly grins of these prehistoric predators...

Grand, indeed, but also full of microplastics. Flickr/scott1346 The Grand Canyon is vast and magnificently unsubtle: The 277-mile gash has long humbled visitors with its sheer rock walls and the...

In 1997, New Jersey–based photographer George Steinmetz decided to learn to fly, when he was assigned to shoot in the central Sahara and learned that his bush pilot had backed...