The president appears to be tying the future of vital infrastructure, a public good, to the promotion of his name.

For the Olympics to be viable in a warming world, new models of planning and hosting are necessary. Milano–Cortina 2026’s ...

What do we know about the legendary island of Thule from ancient Greek records? Do we know where it really was?

The Virgils loved the hoop house. Temperatures were as much as 50 degrees warmer inside. With snow all around, they worked ...

For travellers, geographers, and anyone curious about India’s landscapes, snow-fed rivers explain why fertile plains, ancient ...

In the fourth century, a Christian pilgrim by the name of Egeria set off from the Mediterranean to reach the Holy Land, using the Bible as her guidebook. “These mountains are ascended with infinite ...

The ability of the savannahs to store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is ultimately determined by the amount of aboveground woody biomass. So far, though, it has been difficult to measure this ...

High in the Pennine Alps, more than 3,000m above sea level, climate change has been quietly redrawing the Swiss-Italian border. Below the jagged peak of the Matterhorn, a strip of land on the ...

Emerging in the late Ottoman era, Jewish scholars studied a vast array of works by medieval Arab scholars to establish a body ...

A high-altitude city in Uzbekistan with fortifications and iron workshops may match Marsmanda, revising Silk Road history.

The Government has invited bids to be the first UK Town of Culture in 2028. We’re still at the “expressions of interest” phase but, given the attention garnered by the City of Culture scheme ...