Known for its glittering coastline, the French island of Corsica has a rugged side, too. I clung to the face of the limestone cliff like a crab, my fingers turning white as they clawed the chalky rock ...

This is wild, I thought — what the French would call sauvage. Buoyant on my back, I gazed up at the trees, boulders, and sky as the cold rush shot me forward, muffling all sound. As it turns ...

This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...