Geomorphology

Earth's coastlines are fascinating places where liquids mix and materials are shaped into distinct landforms like river deltas.

Experts say that the map probably has "a much deeper, mythical meaning."

The 'exceptional' 13,000-year-old miniature likely helped Paleolithic humans understand their landscape.

Authorities this week said they want to find anyone involved in the installation of climbing bolts at the site of an ancient outdoor engraving in northeastern Utah.

The "Living Breakwaters" constructed off Tottenville beach in Staten Island were conceived to protect residents from future storms.

Researchers have recreated the bizarre spider-like features seen on the surface of Mars for the first time ever. The breakthrough could help unravel further mysteries surrounding the static Martian arachnids.

A former stretch of the Nile River, now buried beneath the Sahara Desert, may help scientists understand how Egyptians built the pyramids and adapted to a drying landscape

High costs, "disaster fatigue," and regulatory gaps are all preventing Californians from recovering from atmospheric river flooding.

The return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland, a new study shows.

Cartographer Robert Szucs uses satellite data to make stunning art that shows which oceans waterways empty into

An international team of scientists has found early human migrants left Africa for Eurasia, across the Sinai peninsula and on through Jordan, over 80,000 years ago.

The world's oldest moss has survived Earth's shifting landscapes for more than 400 million years, but climate change is happening faster than it can adapt

An El Niño event has officially begun. The climate phenomenon, which originates in the tropical Pacific and occurs in intervals of a few years, will shape weather across the planet for the next year or more and give rise to various climatic extremes. El Niño-like conditions can also occur on longer time scales of decades or centuries.

A study led by Colorado State University suggests that the answers to how and why mountains form are buried deeper than once thought.

More than 1,200 years ago, flightless elephant birds roamed the island of Madagascar and laid eggs bigger than footballs. While these ostrich-like giants are now extinct, new research from the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder) and Curtin University in Australia reveals that their eggshe

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was Earth's first attempt at launching a spacecraft to intentionally collide with and deflect an asteroid as a planetary defense technique. On September 26, 2022, the DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon called Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos. Neither asteroid posed a threat to Earth, but they represented similar celestial bodies…

UK environment secretary Thérèse Coffey has demanded that water companies share plans for how they will reduce sewage discharges into rivers. They could start by coming clean on how much sewage is being dumped. If we don't know how much sewage is actually being released—for at least the worst offending locations—we won't be able to measure environmental and industry improvement with any confidence.

The Biden administration finalized regulations that protect small streams, wetlands and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution.

The Pantanal represents 1.8% of Brazil's total area, occupying 150,000 square kilometers in Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul states. With a mixture of floodable and non-floodable savannas, meadows, pastures and forests, the macro-region contains the world's largest floodplain. Together with the Chaco region, which lies further south, the Pantanal is a complex of wetlands with ample biodiversity that provides…

The age of Yosemite Valley has been hard to pin down. UC Berkeley geologists now say it's younger than we thought, with most of it carved out over the past 5 to 10 million years.