As the scale and severity of environmental issues become more obvious, lawmakers are experimenting with new ways to protect nature. One approach that has gone from blue-sky debate to meaningful ...

On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin ...

Nestled in the heart of New Zealand's South Island, Ahuriri Valley in Central Canterbury is a pristine alpine sanctuary known for its wide glacial rivers, tussock-covered plains, and rugged mountain ...

Montana stretches out like nowhere else. Mountains rise, prairies roll, and the sky just… goes on forever. Rivers carve their way through the trees, so clear you can almost see all the way to the ...

Millions of Californians were under flood alerts and warnings of excessive rainfall on Feb. 5, 2024, as a powerful atmospheric river sat over Southern California. Los Angeles saw one of its wettest ...

In the mountains where waterways that feed the great Syr Darya River originate, three generations of Kyrgyz beekeepers seek out the flower fields that will nourish the tens of thousands of bees that ...

Powerful floodwaters carried landslide debris down the Min River, leaving boulders perched atop what remains of this bridge. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan ...