Eric Shipton dreamed of climbing Ulugh Muztagh, a remote peak in Tibet. Years later, some legendary American climbers and ...

Regardless, the hunt is pretty cool. It starts at the recently-maligned Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where Boyes and Herzog go face-to-face with Henry, a reconstituted 13-ton elephant ...

The inability of the moribund capitalist system to effectively address climate change and all its myriad devastating ...

Globetrotting filmmaker Werner Herzog, an eclectic risk-taker whose monumental works often explore humankind's conflict with ...

Globetrotting filmmaker Werner Herzog, an eclectic risk-taker whose monumental works often explore humankind's conflict with nature, will receive a special award Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival.

One of the fun facts about animals that look innocent, like the platypus, is their strange defense mechanisms. The heels of ...

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change drastically before the continent could support agriculture and permanent settlers.

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the ...