8+ hour, 43+ min ago   (491+ words) The new blockage caused immediate concern because loose volcanic debris can fail when water rises against it. Engineers completed a spillway in 1981 to control the lake level and reduce downstream flood risk. The lake remained in the valley, surrounded by…...

12+ hour, 13+ min ago   (650+ words) Zebra mussels feed by drawing water across their gills and removing suspended particles. Phytoplankton makes up a major share of that material. An adult may filter roughly one liter of water per day, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Multiply that…...

14+ hour, 29+ min ago   (682+ words) WorldAtlas Grand Mesa in western Colorado has a summit plateau of roughly 500 square miles, a tabletop broad enough to hold more than 300 lakes. Around the mesa, softer rock beneath its basalt cap has steadily eroded while the resistant summit has…...

17+ hour, 13+ min ago   (347+ words) Limiting Factor is a two-person Triton 36000/2 submersible rated to 11,000 meters. Its pressure hull is a titanium-alloy sphere with walls 90 millimeters thick. Triton states that the sphere was machined to 99.933 percent of a true sphere. The crew sits inside that compact…...

20+ hour, 43+ min ago   (333+ words) A 2014 netting survey found native salmonids recovering. Water-quality readings were similar before and after treatment, and surveys found comparable invertebrate diversity. Alaska Fish and Game now records the invasive northern pike population as successfully removed. The Indiana Department of Natural…...

22+ hour, 13+ min ago   (491+ words) In August 2026, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced that the US Forest Service had proposed a rule to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule in its entirety. The 2001 rule established broad restrictions on road construction, road reconstruction, and timber harvesting within…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1089+ words) San Bernardino County has the strongest numerical case on this list. Its official Community Indicators program places 77% of the county in the North Desert Region and 17% in the East Desert Region. That leaves only a small share outside those two…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (674+ words) Grand Isle sits near the mouth of the Mississippi River on a barrier island built largely from relatively young delta sediment. VIMS puts its post-1969 relative sea-level trend at roughly 8.2 millimeters per year, the highest rate among the locations in…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (885+ words) The catch is that Douglas got two of her five words wrong, and the corrections are more interesting than the phrase. That is the whole mechanism, and it is why the Everglades exists at all. A river needs a source,…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (670+ words) WorldAtlas Since the year 2000, the Colorado River has been quietly living beyond its means, handing out more water than nature returns to it. So how much has it actually lost? The number is genuinely staggering, but the full story is…...