Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much ...

A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.

United Airlines has started a seasonal, nonstop flight from Newark to the capital of the Arctic island that President Trump ...

More than 210 degrees Fahrenheit separates the highest and the lowest temperatures on record in the United States, the third-largest country in the world.

Timothy Garton Ash on the shocks that fuelled a populist challenge — and how the liberal centre could yet hold ...

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

The head of Denmark's Arctic command said the prospect of a U.S. takeover of Greenland was not keeping him up at night after ...

In Greenland's icy expanse, scientists unearthed 3.7-billion-year-old stromatolite fossils, the oldest evidence of life on Earth, predating Australian finds by 220 million years. This discovery ...

Greenland, thousands of young Inuit girls – some barely teenagers – were sent to hospital. Without giving an explanation or obtaining their consent, Danish doctors fitted them with IUDs, a painful ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Jilted, betrayed, dumped, or defiant. It's hard to describe the European Union after relentless attacks from its ...