A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

Gladys West, right, developed the mathematical models behind GPS. U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons Although women have always been ...

IIT Guwahati researchers identify 493 high-risk sites for future glacial lakes in the Eastern Himalayas to enhance disaster ...

The intimidatingly named Gates of Lodore marks the entrance to the 700-metre deep Canyon of Lodore that slices straight ...

Carolina Bays are elliptical, shallow wetlands found along the Atlantic coast, with a high concentration in the Carolinas.

Mars, the planet we see today—arid, cold, and covered in red dust—may have once been a "blue planet" with a vast ocean that ...

The western US is a geologists' dream, home to the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, active volcanoes and striking sandstone arches. But one landform ...

As protests over redrawing of the Aravalli hill range intensify, a new eco-restoration report has raised sharp questions ...

India’s Supreme Court’s redefinition of the Aravalli hills has triggered nationwide protests, with environmentalists warning ...

The road to Fossil, Oregon, doesn’t reveal itself easily. After a wrong turn that had us questioning our navigation and a necessary stop at the ranger station in Ukiah for an actual paper map — no ...

Trees typically enhance slope stability in two main ways: their canopy intercepts rainfall, slowing water infiltration, and ...