The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

The Yarlung Tansgpo / Brahmaputra dam shows we often don’t know how to deal with rivers that cross national borders.

China recently approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. When fully up and running, it will be the world's largest power plant—by some ...

[Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING -- China's top political advisor Wang Huning on Wednesday urged solid efforts to strengthen democratic oversight over the eco-environmental conservation of the Yangtze River.

Yardang (Yadan in Chinese) refers to land formations sculpted by relentless desert winds. Whistling past the jutting, silent ...

This phenomenon, known as "cratonic thinning," is being attributed to the remnants of the Farallon Plate, a tectonic plate that has been sinking into the Earth's mantle for millions of years. The ...