Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of ...

Approximately 400,000 years ago, some areas of Greenland that are now covered by a thick layer of ice were exposed to fresh ...

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were constructed and the society that made them.

As winter approaches, the intriguing dance of La Niña and a disrupted polar vortex raises the tantalizing question: will ...