At 3:27 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time on May 14, 2026, the floor of Halema’uma’u crater split open again. Lava fountains surged ...

See wild icons that define the American landscape and the Explorers urgently pursuing their protection.  California is home ...

Scientists have revealed that Hawaiian monk seals produce far more underwater vocalizations than previously believed. Their newly discovered 25-call repertoire includes complex combinations and a rare ...

In 2022, a deep-sea expedition north of the Hawaiian Islands revealed an ancient dried-up lakebed. At the bottom, there ...

Participating in events like the Living Traditions Festival, this week in Salt Lake City, is an opportunity for Roen Hufford ...

New isotopic evidence is rewriting the story of Earth's first continents. Imagine the planet nearly 3.8 billion years ago: a ...

Is it possible that another civilization existed before us? That's the question posited by the Silurian Hypothesis.

Called bernwoodite, it’s one of two new minerals Korolev and his adviser at the AMNH, Kate Kiseeva, and their colleagues ...

A Europe-wide collaboration has unveiled the longest continuous record of Earth’s climate and atmospheric conditions, ...

The iconic tourist destination provides a beautiful view, but also represents a physical record of Earth's climate history ...

Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes.

When the earliest humans began to migrate out of Africa, it didn’t take long before they ran into an ocean. Or a sea. Or a lake. Or a river — most of our planet’s surface is water, after all. For ...