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 ...

Rivers naturally flow downhill. They descend from mountain peaks toward the ocean, winding around obstacles rather than plowing straight through them. Yet Utah's Green River defies this basic ...

It was a cloudy July afternoon in Alaska's Kobuk Valley National Park, part of the biggest stretch of protected wilderness in the U.S. We were 95 kilometers (60 miles) from the nearest village and 400 ...

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 ...