A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

The sun shone bright, birds zipped around the sky and tiny, vivid purple, yellow and white flowers flared at my feet.

On April 26, 1336, the poet Petrarch, accompanied by his younger brother, climbed up the windy slopes of Mount Ventoux in the ...

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Yet the treeless hills looked healthy and green ... Renne secured chunks of lava from the Siberian Traps and Permo-Triassic boundary rocks from China. He has determined the two events occurred ...

Nobody knows Europe quite like Rick Steves, and what better way to explore the continent than on one of the travel guru's ...

Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

Guatemalan authorities evacuated around 1,000 people Monday after Central America's most active volcano erupted, spewing lava, ash and rocks. By night, however, the eruption was declared over ...

Mixed messages about aid and no easy access to temporary housing near their home has frustrated Sabrina Mills and her family after flooding destroyed their Swannanoa home.

A new road trip of the Southwest’s Indigenous heartlands offers travellers a greater understanding of the past, present and ...

The caves at Ajanta are excavated out of a vertical cliff above the left bank of the river Waghora in the hills of Ajanta ... The caves are connected with the river by rock-cut staircases. The ...

The 3,600-acre Walnut Canyon National Monument was established in 1915 by President Woodrow Wilson to protect the ancient dwellings carved into the area's cliffs. Archaeologists believe that ...