Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

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Some 80,000 young hatchery steelhead are exploring their new digs in a lake in Whitman County. The Washington Department of ...

The attached crampons scraped against the brittle ice and flailed into empty air. The ice tool slid free from the ice above ...

The Scablands were formed by tremendous and rapid change, and may have something to teach us about geological processes on Mars Cycads have changed a great deal since they first appeared around ...

What facts about rocks do you know? Even though rocks and minerals are abundantly available, many people do not take an interest in them, yet there is a lot to learn about them. Moreover, they are one ...

I followed the dog with optimism, punching through sagebrush and cattails and willows, thinking there would eventually be a bird somewhere in the scablands that felt like flying within shooting range.

Das Boot except with a sense of humor. Our Take: Henrik Jansson-Schweizer based Whiskey On The Rocks on a real-life standoff between the USSR and Sweden over the Soviet sub’s accidental sojourn ...

The year is 1981, the Cold War is very much a going concern and, when a Soviet nuclear Whiskey class submarine strays into Swedish waters, the world's biggest powers fear the worst. While nuclear ...

Here are the 25 best rock songs of the last 25 years. While 2000 did not mark the turn of the century, nor the millennium (those counts start at 2001), it did signal a new era. The first decade ...

As counterprogramming to the tragicomedy of our actual times, television will continue to offer other worlds and worldviews to inhabit. This week offers a couple of new series with a not entirely ...