New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it.

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Museum of London Archaeology researchers recently discovered remains of London's first Roman basilica near the city's Leadenhall Market.

While scientists once thought Greenland's ice streams flowed slowly and uniformly, new research reveals a quake-driven "stick ...

Thule is less known than other places in classical mythology like Atlantis. But Thule actually existed. The prickly question is, where was it?