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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Montana stretches out like nowhere else. Mountains rise, prairies roll, and the sky just… goes on forever. Rivers carve their way through the trees, so clear you can almost see all the way to the ...

In the mountains where waterways that feed the great Syr Darya River originate, three generations of Kyrgyz beekeepers seek out the flower fields that will nourish the tens of thousands of bees that ...

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 ...