Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...

Colorado snowpack will finish with its lowest peak statewide levels since 2018, which could have impacts on the summer season ...

The Yarlung Tansgpo / Brahmaputra dam shows we often don’t know how to deal with rivers that cross national borders.

A total of 32 US states pump oil, but just over 42 percent of the country’s crude oil production comes out of Texas, ...

China recently approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. When fully up and running, it will be the world's largest power plant—by some ...

Global experts have expressed deep concern over China’s proposed “Great Bend Dam” by China on Yarlung Tsangpo, as Brahmaputra ...

Some friends had planned a Canadian Rockies road trip, with Banff and Jasper as the main stops, and I mostly tagged along to ...

Crabtree Falls holds the distinguished title of being the highest vertical-drop cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi ...

The Pacific Northwest has no shortage of natural wonders, but this 620-foot masterpiece stands quite literally above the rest ...

Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core from a high-altitude Pyrenean lake in Spain reveals that fish may have been added ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

I visited all the major US national parks and ranked them based on factors like beauty and crowd size. My favorites include ...