In the shadow of an imposing 27-foot earthen levee, a coyote slinks through tallgrass prairie. American coots, mallards and great blue herons dart around a shallow lake peppered with the flowers of ...

Tropical storms and hurricanes are assigned names from alphabetical lists, often sounding soft and feminine. Historically, ...

Scientists find Martian dune gullies are carved by dry ice sublimation, producing sinuous tracks and springtime features once ...

What is the Dujiangyan irrigation system, which is over 2,000 years old and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and ...

New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about how urban civilization first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, proposing that ...

Drive across the top of the levee; come back along the levee’s “toe” slope; pause when a flood wall or obstruction crosses the levee; move to the next section.

A Miccosukee tribal elder leads scientists into the Everglades to save both the ecosystem and his tribe’s heritage and ...

On windswept dunes inside Martian craters, such as Matara and Russell, the Red Planet wears a curious pattern that has long ...

CO₂ ice blocks on Mars may dig gullies as they slide and sublimate in the thin atmosphere. In lab experiments, scientists ...

Did life really exist on Mars after all? Unfortunately, there is no conclusive evidence for this yet. Nevertheless, it would ...

It is a time consuming, high effort and data intensive task to inspect a levee. That means it is also expensive. Thanks to ...

Jahkeem Stewart showed signs of his dominance at age 12, when he was 6-foot-4 and 360 pounds. But the USC freshman learned it ...