A new study by Boston University and Clean Air Task Force questions the effectiveness of forest carbon credits in offsetting ...

Among the rocks and marine fossils, scientists have found fossilized pollen from the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene periods that reflects changes in the surrounding ecosystems. The pollen reveals ...

Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock, North Carolina isn’t just another amusement park—it’s a time machine disguised as 200 acres of vintage fun.

It takes a lot of fuel to get an airplane up in the sky and keep it there—which means a lot of emissions. In fact, the airline industry produces more greenhouse gases than many major countries. Most ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

Blakeslee is a semi-retired anthropologist from Wichita State University. He’s polite, soft-spoken most of the time, and able ...

That’s exactly the sensation awaiting you at The Depot at Gibson Mill in Concord, North Carolina – an under-the-radar wonderland where treasure hunters from across the state are quietly flocking. The ...

President Trump has repeatedly described the U.S.-Canada border as an "artificially drawn line." But experts say just because ...

A new study of the 28 most populous U.S. cities finds that all are sinking to one degree or another. The cities include not ...

The most populated cities in the country are slowly subsiding, posing risks to infrastructure and exacerbating flooding—and ...

The Trump administration and its allies in Congress are tilting the scale away from natural resource protection and toward extraction.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation released its annual list of most endangered sites, as the country debates who ...