Rachel is a dusty, hardscrabble spot, located in the Joshua tree desert just outside Area 51, that highly guarded Air Force ...

There are 18 National Parks in Maryland as well as an additional 10 affiliated sites that partner with the National Park ...

Walking on dry lake bed that used to be 175 feet underwater (too deep to scuba dive) is an eerily beautiful feeling. We found ...

which was once a large lake during the Pleistocene epoch but is now a dry lake bed with ancient wadis, or dry riverbeds, running through it. The previous humid climate of the region made it a ...

Canada has more lakes than any other country in the world, with a huge diversity of lake sizes, depths, shapes, water chemistries, underlying geologies and hydrologies (the waters that flow in and ...

Canada has more lakes than any other country in the world, with a huge diversity of lake sizes, depths, shapes, water chemistries, underlying geologies and hydrologies (the waters that flow in and out ...

For the first time in six years, water is gushing through a unique spillway in Lake Berryessa, just north of San Francisco.

At each lake, we collected a sediment core and samples from the upper-most and bottom-most sections of the mud were analyzed. These represented modern (deposited in the last few years) and pre ...

Collecting sediment cores from lake beds. (D. Akeya), CC BY At each lake, we collected a sediment core and samples from the upper-most and bottom-most sections of the mud were analyzed.

Extreme drought has returned to Utah for the first time in nearly two years, but a weekend storm could help parts of the ...

Canada has more lakes than any other country in the world, with a huge diversity of lake sizes, depths, shapes, water chemistries, underlying geologies and hydrologies (the waters that flow in and out ...

New evidence points to the possibility that Mars once had lakes of liquid water, not just ice, and NASA is keen to discover what secrets could be lurking beneath the ancient, now-dry lake-beds.