Les Stone/Polaris Christopher Columbus, anchored somewhere along the island's Atlantic coast ... led to Haiti's independence in 1804 and the world's first black-governed republic), to the 19 ...

Ghosh's sumptuously illustrated young-adult debut introduces readers to a world where gods live among ordinary mortals and crafting bespoke hells can be a legitimate family enterprise. The British ...

Join us on an unforgettable journey to Montserrat, the "Pompeii of the Caribbean," where we document the haunting aftermath and ongoing activity of one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in ...

Paleontologists have discovered tracks belonging to meat-eating theropods and long-necked sauropods on the Isle of Skye.

On the island of Naoshima, in the Seto Inland Sea – where the Sea of Japan meets the Pacific – art devotees from all over the world venture on 21st-century pilgrimages. Right now, the island is flush ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

A 24-year-old American YouTuber who was arrested after visiting an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean with hopes of establishing contact with a reclusive tribe was further detained in custody ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico this week, leaving 1.4 million customers without power and more than 400,000 without water. It was the second massive outage ...

An island in the middle of Sudan's capital that used to draw crowds to its Nile River farms now stands nearly deserted after two years of war, its homes ransacked and once-lush fields left fallow.