Geology

In a vast, remote land of extremes, wild animals, plants, and humans adapt to survive.

Below California’s surface lies a series of caves that can teach us a lot about our natural world—and its history.

The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.

A tiny stone cabbage has a big backstory stretching from Beijing’s Forbidden City to Taipei's National Palace Museum.

In 2016, a concerned local dropped $400 worth of rock on a vanishing beach to see what would happen. Now engineers are watching, too.

For more than a decade, hot mud has oozed across thousands of acres, displacing entire villages.

Wondrous portraits of feathered friends, lowriders, a handmade amusement park, and more.

A light show, courtesy of a historic New Jersey mine.