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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UC Santa Cruz has played a leading role in a multi-agency group working for the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force to provide guidance on the development of coral reef restoration proposals for federal hazard ...

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 ...

IN view of the most recent discoveries in the region of physics, especially with regard to the nature and properties of forces, it became necessary eo ipso for dynamical geology to give up as ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...