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.
October 21, 2015 Lost world locked in stone at Fossil Lake Over thousands of years, dead animals rained down into the muck deep below the surface of long-gone Fossil Lake.
October 21, 2015 'Mars rat' spied by NASA's Curiosity rover A photo from the Mast Camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals the dusty orange, rock-strewn surface of the Red Planet -- and captured a dusty orange rodent hiding among the stones, starry-eyed enthusiasts claim
