Just below Greenland is a menacing stretch of water known as the Cold Blob. As the planet heats up, the Cold Blob remains a spooky outlier — positioned right above the area where the Atlantic Ocean’s ...

For the full Norwegian fjord experience, Alaska's underrated yet spectacular Kenai Fjords National Park is often considered the "Norway of America." Yet neither Alaska nor the U.S. as a whole has a ...

About 340 million years ago, the Appalachian Mountains were as tall as the Himalayas and spanned across what is today three continents.

The nearly 170,000 square miles of ocean around Ascension ... foot underwater volcano in the mid-Atlantic ridge, one of the world’s longest mountain ranges. On August 24, the Ascension Island ...

The body of a 41-year-old ski mountaineer has been recovered after he fell over 3,000 feet off of Mount McKinley, the tallest ...

The state’s parks are often overshadowed by Acadia National Park—but they shouldn’t be. These must-visit parks showcase the ...

The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

We study ocean habitats and strategies for conserving ocean life. In analyzing marine protected areas, we’ve concluded that simply designating protected zones is not enough. To be effective, these ...

The Atlantic ... to the mountains of western North Carolina, hundreds of miles inland from where the storm made landfall in Florida." DaSilva and the rest of AccuWeather's long-range forecasting ...

"Hurricane Helene brought catastrophic flash flooding and destructive winds to the mountains ... Atlantic. Winds around this bubble of high pressure direct storms and hurricanes westward across ...

allowing the mantle to rise as the overlying continental crust is thinned and eventually split (for example in the Atlantic Ocean), and (2) subsequent basin closure and mountain building as ...

At the turn of the millennium, researchers uncovered a site near the summit of an underwater mountain range in the mid-Atlantic Ridge that spews essential gases to sustain unique life forms. Located 2 ...