From the city of Reykjavik to the endless variety of landscapes and attractions peppered all over the island country, there ...

American tourist Scott Stevens and his daughter Wylde, 10, believe they were moments away from being killed in Iceland’s cave collapse on Sunday. Stevens, visiting from Austin, Texas, was taking ...

Long before the Sumerians pressed reeds into clay, humans may have already taken their first steps toward writing. Forty thousand years ago, in the depths of Ice Age caves, people began leaving behind ...

More tourists are eager to visit vanishing glaciers and ice caves, but warming is also making the sites unstable. By Austyn Gaffney An American tourist was visiting an ice cave in one of Europe’s ...

A photo of Iceland's Image of Iceland's Jökulsárlón glacial lake, situated at the foot of the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier. © TommyBee via Wikimedia Commons One ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig even deeper in time – much deeper – visit a cave. Some of my favorites, in ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones ...

Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig even deeper in time — much deeper — visit a cave. Some of my favorites, in ...