He started in the '90s and says that back then independent travel was a shared experience among a loose community of fellow ...

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

Snowfall in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas is at a 23-year low, threatening two billion people who depend on snowmelt for water.

American drug smuggler John Michael Boyum was one of the first to surf Siargao’s Cloud 9 in the late 1980s. His story helped ...

President Donald Trump appeared to concede Friday that Republican lawmakers could face political fallout if they heeded his ...

“We’re trying to build a road map for where these fish are going ... The Mekong, the longest river in Southeast Asia, runs more than 4,900 kilometers (3,000 miles) from its headwaters in ...

Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These ...

Shallow earthquakes like these are more dangerous than deeper ones due to their greater energy release closer to the Earth's ...

Hello and welcome to the final issue of This Week in History for the Spring 2025 semester! This week marks a special occasion, one that may even make the history books someday: This Week in ...

A couple from California liked traveling to a small European country with cheap food, transport, and housing so much that ...