Kerala monsoon brings heavy rainfall and flood alerts. The state braces for rising river levels, dam openings, and school ...

The biggest source of salty freshwater in D.C. and other major northern inland cities is an overapplication of road salt to thaw winter ice, which runs off into rivers or the ground.

Exceptionally large floods’ swept through Guizhou’s Rongjiang county, forcing some 80,000 people to flee their homes.

Electric vehicles promise a cleaner future, but behind Tesla’s sleek designs lie lithium mining disasters, toxic battery ...

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

The salty sea—actually a lake—whose surface now lies more than 1,380 feet (420 meters) below sea level, is not only the lowest nonmarine place on Earth but also the catch basin for water ...

Two photographs comparing an English coastline landmark 130 years apart and showing similar water levels are not evidence ...

These Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest known copies of some Old Testament books, and other ancient Jewish texts. Scholars believed the scrolls were hidden to protect them from the Romans, ...

In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he heard it strike pottery. Upon entering the cave, he found a jar filled with three well-preserved rolls of marked ...

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, "virtual unfolding," and paleography, i.e ...

Detroit Lake's water level is forecast to drop faster and lower than expected in the summer and that could have an impact on ...

Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of Jewish and Christian origins. However, while the general date of the ...