The Adelong Alive Museum is preparing to host a commemorative event on 14 March, celebrating a pivotal chapter in ...

The story of how nine skiers were killed, and six survived, in the deadliest avalanche in modern California history.

In 1869, John Wesley Powell was studying layers of rock in the Grand Canyon when he noticed an unconformity in the layers. Around a billion years were missing, and the problem turned out to be global.

In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided ...

Below the Clouds” and Werner Herzog’s “Ghost Elephants” offer thrilling but troubled visions of a world in environmental flux.

A towering cliff in Italy has revealed hundreds of meters of perfectly preserved Triassic dinosaur footprints, exposing ancient herd behavior in dramatic fashion.

Between two of the sites currently hosting events in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics lies an immense dinosaur trackway only ...

From alpine towns to rugged islands, these Air Canada Vacations tour packages will feed your sense of adventure.

Cologne was once Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, a powerhouse of the Roman Empire. The governor lived here in a massive palace called the Praetorium. We’ve known about the palace for decades, but ...

Two skiers were killed in avalanches in the French Alps on Monday, bringing the total to four in three days. A 38-year-old man was killed in Saint-Agnes, near Grenoble, shortly before 4pm while skiing ...

Hannibal marching his elephants over the Alps is one of history's most legendary moments, and now archaeologists have found a bone that proves it really happened. During the Second Punic War, the ...