Nestled along the sparkling shores of Hood Canal, Twanoh State Park is the kind of place that makes you wonder why you don’t play hooky more often.

There’s a place in southwestern Minnesota where the landscape suddenly shifts from familiar Midwestern farmland to something that looks like it was teleported from another region entirely. Blue Mounds ...

These crystal-clear lakes from around the world are proof that nature knows how to keep it clean—and absolutely breathtaking ...

Rock and rollers pride themselves on speed, but Jeff Lynne wasn't prone to getting tripped up every now and again when putting a song together.

Scientists found giant buried mud waves in the Atlantic, revealing the ocean began forming earlier than thought and ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...

In the early 70s, Genesis started taking shape into one of the most popular acts within progressive rock, and went on to release the ten-and-a-half-minute song The Musical Box from Nursery Cryme (1971 ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. NICE, ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

For decades, the enigmatic “sailing stones” of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park have captivated scientists and ...