The December 18 explosion is the region’s fourth in three years—and has fired out 10 times more lava per second than any of the past three at their peaks. Here's what happens next.

At this unique San Antonio preschool, students get to visit the zoo every day as part of a nature-based learning environment.

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A visit to historic or meaningful trees provides a sense of connection to the wonder of the natural world. Vital parts of their ecosystems, trees also spark our imagination, inspire famous books ...

Can Socotra, Yemen’s ‘Dragon's Blood Island,' be saved? Between Africa and Arabia lies an island of rare biological oddities—one that’s buffeted now by development, cyclones, and civil war.

SKERRY: And then when I think the time is right, I take a deep breath and I slide underwater. GWIN: He’s on a mission to see a pod of killer whales off the coast of Norway.

Albert José Jones is considered the godfather of Black scuba diving in the U.S. He founded the country’s oldest Black diving club, Underwater Adventure Seekers in Washington, D.C., in 1959, and ...

Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere. The chemical signature of methane released from fracking is found in the atmosphere, pointing to shale gas operations as the culprit.

In 1935 Amelia Earhart penned a 'National Geographic' article about her flight from Hawaii to California and forecast that regular transoceanic flight was just on the horizon.

Beavers provide all kinds of great services for us humans, too. Beaver ponds filter out pollution, store water for use by farms and ranches, slow down floods, and act as firebreaks or reduce erosion.

On Friday, a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, just after 5:02 PM Western Indonesian Time. Dramatic videos revealed the eerie growth of a mounting wave in ...

This Harley-Davidson took the world’s first motorcycle ride powered by solar fuel. The bike motored along the shores of Switzerland’s Lake Zurich thanks to a new type of sustainable energy.