Waitomo is a region on New Zealand famous for glittering glowworms that hang from caves. But deep inside a jagged crevice ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 ...

The Factbook, a version of which dates to 1962, provided facts, figures, maps and more to generations of economists, ...

World of Warcraft secret hunters now have a place to call home, as an over a decade-old mystery dating back to the Cataclysm ...

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A landslide last week killed at least 200 people in eastern Congo at a rebel-controlled coltan mine and families of the ...

As water risks rise worldwide, leading companies are advancing strategies to secure resources and build long-term resilience. But more work remains.

As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining ...

In the 3rd century CE, China fractured into three rival states—Wei, Shu, and Wu—ushering in one of the most turbulent and ...

Salt is deeply encrusted onto the history of Wieliczka. Around 13.5 million years ago, seawater flooded this basin at the ...

The region of Anatolia, now modern-day Turkey, has always been prime geopolitical real estate, acting as a crossroads between Asia and Europe. Flanked by the Black and Mediterranean Seas, this ...