Alaska is one of the world’s most popular cruising destinations, with some 1.71 million annual visitors in 2024, according to Cruise Lines International Association.

In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.

When it comes to Alaskan adventures, most travelers have their sights set on the usual suspects – Denali, Kenai Fjords, or Glacier Bay. Meanwhile, Chilkat State Park sits quietly near Haines, ...

From the Pacific Crest to the Rocky Mountains, discover America's spectacular hiking trails through national parks and ...

The highest active volcano in Europe, Mount Etna (pictured above) is a magnificent landmark on the Italian island of Sicily.

For generations, the glacier fanned out across the lake that it carved out. Now, after two decades of rapid retreat, ...

Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded in Antarctica. Its flat, below-sea-level ice plain allowed huge slabs of ice ...

City of Merced received a $77,000 California Arts and Parks grant for phase one. Phase one will build an ADA playground and a natural stone monument to Vang Pao. Construction expected to begin spring ...

Desert farm. This aerial photograph shows the Kubuqi Desert Ordos Central-Northern New Energy Base, a massive renewable-energy project under construction in the Kubuqi desert in northwest China, near ...

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, known for capturing galaxies and solar phenomena with remarkable clarity, has now added something unexpectedly wholesome to his cosmic portfolio: his rescue cat, ...

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