About 40 people gathered at a small church in Cumberland to learn about where their water comes from — and why it’s at risk — on World Water Day. Though the gathering on Saturday was small, its topics ...

The olive tree is one of the most iconic symbols of the Mediterranean basin, deeply intertwined with the region's history, ...

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned ...

Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean.

However, don't rush for your woolly hat and scarf just yet, because the long-term effects of human-made climate change could prevent the next ice age from ever happening. Our planet has always ...

As Shakespeare put it, we all have our entrances and our exits on this grand stage we call life, and now researchers have identified the specific point in middle-age when our brain cells show the ...

Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student who helped lead last year’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations, was detained by the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday. Photo: Jeenah Moon ...

Soon, he’ll be well enough to go home. Renos-Pantelis, a five-month old mediterranean monk seal, dives into the water after its release at a beach on the tiny Aegean Sea island of Gyaros, Greece, ...

Times (2003) ] FossilFest: In Florida’s last Ice Age, prehistoric people hunted mammoths, built pyramids along Florida’s coast, and lived in fear of the saber cat, giant lions and wolves.

The event focused on the history of the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan, a unique model that brings together otherwise competing interests to solve water rights issues and plan for future challenges.

A popular pastime among Americans of a certain age is to wage an internal debate about when to claim Social Security: At age 62? Sixty-five? Seventy? In purely monetary terms, as it turns out ...