Native American words, honoring royals, or homesick settlers—check out the crazy origins of every American state's name.

As climate warms the atmosphere and spurs greater precipitation, mountain communities like Asheville, N.C., face growing ...

Researchers say that two rivers merged some 89,000 years ago and gave the mightiest peak in the Himalayas a huge growth spurt ...

Wilson Lake, located in central Kansas, is home to some of the most unique topography in the state. “We have a lot of Dakota sandstone along with the greenhorn limestone that you see a lot of ...

A view of the damaged area at Asheville along with the western part of North-Carolina is devastated by the heavy rains and ...

It made landfall with winds reaching 140 miles per hour, making it a major storm and a Category 4 out of 5 on the ...

The size and intensity of the storm, as well as its duration over land, must be attributed to the impact of climate change.

Melting glaciers changed the topography of a roughly 330-foot-long segment of the border between Italy and Switzerland.

This story is a collaboration between Grist and High Country News.

On this day, September 26th, history has seen a myriad of significant events that have shaped our world in various ways, ...

High among the alpine forests around Sargents Mesa north of Saguache in the Colorado Rockies stand acres upon acres of beetle ...

As the closing acts of this year's Hyde Park Jazz Festival resounded on the Midway, a small group of theatergoers gathered in ...