Sometimes rivers split into branches in unusual ways, reflecting the complexity of Earth's water system on land and how much we still must learn about it.

As North America emerges from winter ... See if you might have them coming your way soon: With impossibly fast wings, small bodies and long distances to travel, hummingbirds must eat every ...

Have hummingbirds arrived in Northern Virginia? What to know as these tiny, energetic birds make their way north.

If US President Donald Trump can rename the Gulf of Mexico, then Germans can rename bodies of water in their country - and there are plenty of them. What about the "Gulf of Bavaria" for the upper ...

In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court upended federal protections for America's wetlands ... this ruling could have on our wetlands and the water bodies and communities that depend on them." ...

Machias Seal Island is a tiny dot on maps of North America. But the uninhabited ... each long laid claim to the island and surrounding water, where the US state of Maine meets Canada's New ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers from ...

Broad River Campground in Mooresboro, North Carolina, was just voted the best campground in North America in the 2025 Campspot Awards.

The list of 10 most endangered rivers of 2025, according to the nonprofit American Rivers, includes the Mississippi River and ...

HB 575 and HB 549 passed the Florida Senate on April 9 with the goal of ensuring that all official state documents, maps ... of water along Florida’s west coast became the Gulf of America ...