While snowmelt is a major contributor to river flow, thawing permafrost is becoming increasingly important. Beneath the ...

A new study involving researchers from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has finally solved the mystery of what caused the collapse of an Ancient Chinese civilization—finding that widespread ...

Did you know that a massive ancient flood triggered a thousand year ice age? 13,000 years ago, North America seemed to be ...

Flooding in the middle Yangtze river valley 4000 years ago, recorded by stalagmite calcium isotopes, coincides with the decline of the post-Shijiahe culture, highlighting that water-excess can be as ...

The Greek myth of Deucalion is like Noah's, who constructed an ark when Zeus resolved to destroy humanity by a Great flood.