Researchers said "the land underneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is less well known than the surface of Mars" ...

The revered nature writer asks ambitious questions in his latest work, written at a tipping point for the world’s climate.

Two key trends undermine free-flowing rivers: large-scale dams and climate change. Globally, construction of large dams fell ...

Cartographers like Dan Coe battle the notion that everything on the planet has already been mapped. "The world is always ...

A team has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world.

Unfortunately, many rivers in the world are dying. In England and Wales, in fact, right now we haven’t got a single river in 'good overall ecological health'. This is a failure of imagination as ...

The Chinese recently let it be known to the world that they are finally ... Now, what happens to the river as it comes into India? As the Brahmaputra enters India, it is joined by two large ...

He had preferred a tunnel, which would have been better for the fish, among other reasons because it would have prevented countless rubber particles from raining into the river off eroding car tires.

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.

“we think this is maybe the most accurate map of river flow ever made,” he said. Gleason’s conclusion: “Holy cow, the rivers of the world are a lot different than we thought.” Some are ...