Yardang (Yadan in Chinese) refers to land formations sculpted by relentless desert winds. Whistling past the jutting, silent turret of stratified sandstone, the wind — a perennial force to reckon with ...

Without the constant supply of meltwater, which fed major rivers and replenished underground aquifers, life would have been unsustainable. To witness the region's remarkable landforms, one must ...

Many animals change landscapes by acting as ‘ecosystem engineers’. Protecting and restoring nature can help us become more ...

The study, published in the journal Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, analyzed more than ... area flooded when a powerful atmospheric river slammed into B.C. in November 2021.

A study has found nearly half of the landslides, debris flows and washouts that occurred during British Columbia’s atmospheric river disaster in November 2021 originated in areas that had been logged ...

The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, covered about 70,000 square ... The paper cites research showing atmospheric rivers are becoming more frequent ...

Scientists discovered a new forest killifish in Kenya, revealing both evolutionary and tectonic history—but its habitat is ...

This includes River Welland, River Nene ... "They're very significant as they're major landforms in the area. "They're the only hills in the Wash. The outer trial bank is a breeding sea colony ...

A massive landslide that shut down Westside Road near Lake Okanagan Resort should have been anticipated, an area MLA says.

with high precision rock dating of key landforms in eastern Africa. The aim is to reconstruct the tectonic development of central Africa over the past 20 million years. During the past five to 30 ...

The cost of the construction is worth almost £35m in today's money, but the island is now mainly populated by birds.