Crossing vast tracts of British Columbian wilderness, the Skeena is one of Canada’s most thrilling, and little-known, rail journeys.

From the Făgăraș Mountains of Romania to the teeming sea cliffs of St Kilda in Scotland, Europe is still home to staggering ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for an ancient route. For centuries, Indigenous communities used Lake ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...

The barrier islands off the coast of Georgia are littered with millions of oysters left behind by Indigenous peoples. New research shows they’re still protecting the land. Dense piles of oyster ...

In the summer of 1973 sunflowers appeared in my father's vegetable garden. They seemed to sprout overnight in a few rows he had lent that year to new neighbors from California. Only six years old ...

Animals with ultraviolet color patterns can be found all over nature. Here’s what we know about what purpose these patterns ...

Do animals have siblings, aunties, or cousins? Can they survive without any family at all? Female gazelles, like this ...

The cuisines across the Mediterranean, Latin American, and Southeast Asian may vary, but the practice of sharing food and ...

An explosion on Mount Spurr could generate massive cloud of ash, which could mess with airplanes and cause issues for humans.

New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language.

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...