Once upon a time, setting a landscape aside to preserve its natural beauty was a novel idea. Today, after the blossoming of endless calendars, coffee-table books and photo albums celebrating America's ...

our river was at work since the evolution of the fish that are in it. The formation of a river is a tug-of-war between water and the landscape. Water, of course, has this nagging inclination to flow ...

Mount Everest stands as the tallest peak on Earth, but its story began millions of years ago when massive tectonic plates ...

The Northwest is home to a host of fascinating natural features, from the Columbia River Gorge to the coastline and Cascades. But have you ever wondered what natural forces have shaped the landscapes ...

This image is taken from the Geologic Time Viewer, a project presented last week at MIT, which shows how materials created over millions of years in geologic time are now a part of our everyday lives.

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the Netherlands and one in Germany has created a list of the 1000 rivers around the globe that are pouring the most plastics into the ...

Boulder, CO, USA - A new publication by the Geological Society of America outlines the topographic evolution of the dynamic African continent, illustrating how its unique geomorphic history reflects ...

The East African Rift System (EARS) is the world’s largest continental rift, stretching from Jordan to Mozambique. For years, geologists have been puzzled as to why EARS displays some deformations ...

Sumatra's catastrophic Dec. 26 earthquake flattened cities and shifted landscapes in seconds with the force of a million atom bombs. Within hours, ferocious waves had turned the Indian Ocean into a ...

Today, we stand on the brink of a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the Red Planet. A recent study has leveraged the power of artificial intelligence to decode the complex wind patterns ...