A remote mountain trek with indigenous rice farmers shows another side of the island nation better known for its beaches For Joy Poligon, life is simple, if harsh. "If I don't go to our rice field ...

For Joy Poligon, life is simple, if harsh. "If I don't go to our rice field every day, we will have nothing to eat." It takes her an hour for a return trip to Batad, traversing rough terrain to reach ...

While this ancient northern landscape has spanned millennia ... Hand-carved into the mountains 2,000 years ago, the rice terraces in the Philippines’ Ifugao province are staggeringly spectacular.

She and her teenage cousin are both multiracial, Asian and Caucasian. Aerial View of Ancient Ifugao Rice Terraces at Batad in Northern Luzon, Philippines Aerial view of ancient Ifugao Rice Terraces at ...

MY visits to Kiangan have always been last-minute decisions rather than part of my original plan. I first came to this town during the 1990s upon the invitation of a friend after we spent several days ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

SUSTAINABILITY and innovation are the driving forces in "Adopt A Payoh: Preserving Cultural Heritage and Developing Future Leaders through Youth Engagement" — a project launched recently by the Ifugao ...

But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to new research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ISEA may have mastered seafaring well before anyone else. Proving ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...