Thousands of years ago, an ice dam holding back a vast glacial lake suddenly collapsed — unleashing a torrent of water that ...

The quirky seaside town is not only one of England’s classic beach holiday towns but a brilliant setting for the sixth edition of the Folkestone Triennial, an international, open-air art exhibition.

A new invader is threatening California’s water supply. Golden mussels were first detected in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta last fall, and in that short time they have infiltrated the state’s major ...

A giant boulder in Tonga rode a wave from an ancient tsunami 7,000 years ago. The 1,300-ton rock traveled a distance twice the size of a football field, swept away by the sheer force of the wave, ...

Exploring a music scene is not too dissimilar from traveling the globe. The more places you visit, the more types of people you meet, the more stamps you acquire in your metaphorical sonic passport ...

But if, on a certain day about 5.3 million years ago, you happened to go for a stroll along that mountain range, you might have discovered something odd: a trickle of water, making its way down one of ...

Imagine the entire Mediterranean Sea disappeared, leaving behind an empty, sun-baked salt plain stretching from Spain to the Middle East. Then imagine the Atlantic Ocean suddenly crashing through a ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down ...

Sicily (the large island next to the ‘toe’ of Italy) still forms part of a divide between the Mediterranean’s darker basins, shaded in deeper blue (GEBCO / National Oceanographic Centre, UK, CC ...

Daniel García-Castellanos does research on public European and Spanish funding. Paul Carling does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was a ...