November 20, 2015 Scientists find an old tropical forest in the Arctic Bet you didn't know there was a tropical forest in the Arctic.
November 13, 2015 Scientists take a closer look at burping, booming deserts In his travel diaries, Marco Polo recounted how he often heard haunting sounds at night as he traveled through the Gobi desert. Now, researchers studying sand dunes in Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert are starting to unravel the mystery behind those sounds that have been described as moaning, roaring or squeaks after a sand avalanche.
November 5, 2015 Montserrat: a modern-day Pompeii in the Caribbean Known among locals simply as “the volcano,” Soufrière Hills roared to life in 1995 after decades of inactivity, causing many residents of Montserrat’s capital city, Plymouth, to flee.
November 5, 2015 Tramway planned for Machu Picchu's 'sister city' The national government has approved what will be Peru's first aerial tramway.
October 22, 2015 Earth may be much older than we thought, scientists say Earth may be much older than we thought, perhaps 300 million years older.That is the conclusion from a team of geochemists at UCLA and Stanford University who found evidence that life likely existed on Earth at least 4.1 billion years ago and may have begun shortly after the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago.
October 21, 2015 How they blow: Secrets of Yellowstone's geysers Despite more than a century of scrutiny, the inner workings of Old Faithful and other Yellowstone National Park geysers remain a mystery
October 21, 2015 Antarctica's mysterious mountains preserved by ice Earth's best-kept secret to looking young is buried under Antarctica's deep, old ice
October 21, 2015 UN finding on climate change is just a bunch of hot air, new report claims A U.N.-commissioned panel says global climate change is hurting the growth of crops, affecting the quality of water supplies and forcing wildlife to change the way they live – but what if it’s all just smoke and mirrors?
October 21, 2015 Explorers eat fried tarantulas at black-tie gala Goat testicles, earthworms, python and jellyfish were on the menu at the Waldorf Astoria hotel Saturday night.
October 21, 2015 New explanation for mysterious 'fairy circles' in African desert The bizarre circular patches of bare land called "fairy circles" in the grasslands of Africa's Namib Desert have defied explanation, with hypotheses ranging from ants to termites to grass-killing gas that seeps out of the soil.
