Mudslides are dangerous torrents that are usually referred to by geologists and first responders as debris flows.

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

It’s not too early to think about spring planting. The Niagara County Soil & Water Conservation District is taking orders for its annual tree and perennial seedling sale until Feb. 28. The sale is an ...

Andrew Gray, an associate professor of watershed hydrology at UCR, weighs in on the threats to life and infrastructure posed by fast-moving debris flows, and how residents can best respond.

In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural “carbon sinks:” those primarily ...

The Larimer Conservation District has removed more than 100,000 trees from Colorado's forests — all for the betterment of the land.

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Bucks County drought conditions worsened from moderate to severe last month, in spite of the modest rainfall and snow melt, ...

It’s still unclear how buffer strip legislation from the past session will affect farmers, but some answers may be available as early as this fall. The version of the buffer strip plan that ...

If other counties find errors similar to those found in McLeod County, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources may have a hard time implementing new buffer strip regulations as quickly as it ...

ITANAGAR, 7 Feb: A two-day hands-on training programme on ‘Remote Sensing (RS) & GIS and PM GatiShakti (PMGS) portal’, conducted by the RWD’s Soil & Water Conservation (SWC) Directorate under its ...

Reservoir capacity remains good statewide, but many reservoirs in central and southern Utah could struggle to refill if dry ...