It all began with my fascination with politics since my grade school days. It was inevitable that this would lead me to the study of geopolitics, the study of the influence of factors as geography, ...

JRR Tolkien never forgot the friends he lost in the trenches of WWI, and his harrowing experience there strongly influenced ...

The world's rainforests are often referred to as the "lungs of the earth". They store billions ... The team is hoping to produce the first maps within six months, and will then continue to gather ...

A pair of Japan-based U.S. destroyers has been operating in the Indian Ocean over the past month, as the Pentagon is enhancing its military presence in the nearby Middle East. A spokesperson for ...

The Silmarillion Tolkien Illustrated Edition, which includes over 50 sketches, hand-drawn maps, and paintings by ... and lore for the world of Middle-earth. The Silmarillion was published ...

The European Space Agency is set to launch a revolutionary satellite that will create 3D maps of Earth's forests. The Biomass mission will monitor forest health, respond to climate change ...

A satellite conceived at the University of Sheffield and developed by British academics and engineers is set to become the first in the world to measure the condition of the Earth's forests from ...

This is the illustrated edition, which includes hand-drawn color illustrations by Tolkien himself, detailed maps of Middle-Earth, deeper lore and world-building, and early histories of key ...

The recently released Middle-earth 6-Film Collection is on sale for an incredible price at Amazon and Walmart. Launched on March 18 with a rather expensive $210 MSRP, the massive 30-disc 4K Blu ...

The bow-tied W. Thacher Longstreth agreed to meet a few young people who wanted to celebrate Mother Earth. In the spring of 1970, they called it Earth Day. “I thought at first it was just a ...

How do scientists explore Earth's hidden interior - its crust, mantle, and core? The answer lies in earthquake waves. Like X-rays, these seismic waves travel through and reflect off internal ...

The Davidson County Assessor of Property’s office has released a “heat map” of the county showing the median appraised percent increase for homes. Per the map, the median increase ranges ...