The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, securing access to the Pacific northern rim and ending Russian presence in North America.

The partnership between Penn College of Technology and North West Regional College started about three years ago when a staff member recognized the similarities between the two sc ...

The Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway isn’t just a road – it’s a time machine, an art gallery, a nature preserve, and a history book all rolled into one asphalt ribbon cutting through some of the most ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

As a "quiet crisis" unfolds along the U.S.-Canada border, one expert advocates for the harnessing of cutting-edge ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has established herself as a bridge between President Trump and America’s European ...

The funding allows construction of Phase I of the project to proceed, expected to produce 40,000 metric tons of ...

"These hydrologic oddities illustrate how much we have still to learn about Earth's dynamic surface," researchers said in a ...

The U.S. tariffs on transshipment countries like Vietnam and Cambodia are so steep that they could force a major reassessment ...

Over a thousand years ago, the Viking leader Erik the Red discovered a new land after being exiled for murdering his neighbor ...

Scientists must journey to remote islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, braving uncertain conditions, to reach the ...