A travel blogger’s grumbles about excessive fees to visit China’s national parks led to an online storm - and a small backdown

Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)

A formation known as Durupınar, just a few miles from the Iranian border in Turkey, has been associated with Noah’s Ark for nearly 70 years.

Modern China’s understanding of wildfires is primarily applied science aimed at resolving issues related to fire management. Dominant conceptions of fire focus on physical processes and interactions – a physical paradigm. This was not always the ...

The incident is the latest to raise questions about the growing reliance on digital maps for wilderness navigation

Exclusive: MPs, charities and rights group warn that accuracy should not be sacrificed for speed in ‘life and death’ asylum decisions

When Karolina Pakėnaitė attempts to scale Mount Everest, every vibration from a high-tech vest she plans to wear will bring her closer to the top. If she succeeds, she’ll become the first deafblind pe...

Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, —was born never to live in peace with himself and to

Kathleen Jamie on the unseen presence that walks beside climbers at the edge of survival.

Presence - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Presence by Ben Alderson-Day

“Four Rivers Six Ranges” brings Tibet’s little-known resistance history to the screen through the story of ordinary Tibetans who helped the Dalai Lama escape to India in 1959.

Writing Westward Podcast · Episode

Since February this year, Kukis and Nagas have reignited old animosities, adding to the ethnic violence and armed hostilities in Manipur

In the 1970s, the administrator of a boys' home in England wound up finding the missing 19th-century piece and bringing it back into the spotlight

Sometimes, marvelling at the feats of great mountaineers as they climb the highest Alpine peaks first requires descending deep into a basement. In late 2025, an unexpected discovery was made in the…

CIRES scientists use satellites to uncover how and when the first known ice shelf estuary formed on the Greenland Ice Sheet