The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt Andrea Wulf and Lillian Melcher Pantheon (2019) Four years ago, the historian Andrea Wulf rescued Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) from ...

When Alexander von Humboldt (right) traveled to England in 1790, he met a young chemist named James Smithson, the founder of the Smithsonian. Humboldt's influence still resonates throughout the ...

The Humboldt Forum, a major—and controversial—museum nearly two decades in the making, has finally opened to the public. Located in the heart of Berlin, the new institution hopes to welcome as many as ...

After an unprecedented five-year tour of South America, Mexico and Cuba, Humboldt returned to Europe a hero. Not only was he honored for surviving such an expedition, he freely shared all of his newly ...

Alexander von Humboldt measured everything in sight. Though many of his discoveries are hard to categorize or have been superseded, his holistic view of nature led the way to how we see and understand ...

250 years ago on this day German explorer, naturalist and author Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin. Encouraged by his father, the young Humboldt collected plants, insects and pebbles in the ...

Can we call the great German polymath, Alexander von Humboldt—an explorer, scientist, and widely read author whose long life spanned the eighteen and nineteenth centuries—a founder of ecology? Without ...

Humboldt’s strength has never been about being the biggest or the fastest. It’s about being connected, collaborative, and ...

While infrastructure and planning were key priorities in 2025, in part two of our Year in Review, Mayor Rob Muench says the ...

Humboldt State has a new name and an updated mission as a polytechnic university, a move aimed at increasing sagging enrollment at an underused campus with high-demand STEM education and research ...

For more than forty years, the epicenter of cannabis farming in the United States was a region of northwestern California called the Emerald Triangle, at the intersection of Humboldt, Mendocino, and ...