Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

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California's biggest lake has languished for decades as increased salinity, a sinking waterline and a foul smell have robbed ...

Today, each member of the POWDER staff has written about three or four ski runs that they think serve up the best views in ...

It is a world cut off from our own by thick blankets of floating ice, but some scientists are taking the plunge to learn how ...

After decades of failed attempts to preserve California's endlessly troubled 120-year-old Salton Sea, a myriad of new plans to save the salt-riddled lake are taking form. Scientists discovered a ...

In fact, Lake Suwa has not fully frozen over — what locals call “an open sea” — for 18 of the past 25 years. Kiyoshi Miyasaka, the chief priest of Yatsurugi Shrine, which for the past ...

A camera trap deployed by a Loch Ness researcher in 1970 was recently recovered by an autonomous robot. Not only was it still intact—it still had film that could be developed, and the photos show a ...

The long-delayed restoration of the Salton Sea, the large, ultra-briny California lake almost universally described as an “environmental disaster,’’ could be starting to finally get its sea ...

Each year, after much consideration and debate, Afar’s global network of editors, writers, and travel advisors anoints the ...