Two nonprofit conservation groups struck an innovative land deal last week that will permanently protect from development a forested 862-acre tract with a large waterfall in western Sonoma County. The ...

Beneath the icy waters between Greenland and Iceland flows Earth’s largest waterfall, three times taller than Angel Falls — yet completely invisible from the surface. How can something so vast remain ...

A Faith Fitzpatrick, research hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Wisconsin Water Science Center: It basically takes four things to make a waterfall. The first one is, of course, water. Second ...

The breathtaking waters that cascade off of steep cliffs may be self-made productions. It was long thought that waterfalls needed an outside force to form — such as an earthquake, landslide or changes ...

Going against the flow is always a challenge, but some waterfall-climbing fish have adapted to their extreme lifestyle by using the same set of muscles for both climbing and eating, according to new ...

The Denmark Strait cataract, located between Iceland and Greenland, is technically the largest waterfall on Earth, though it remains entirely hidden underwater. As reported byLive Science, this ...

When you try to come up with the Earth's largest waterfall, there are a lot of factors to take into account. Some might break it down based on sheer size, the flow rate or volume of water coming ...

Antarctica's Blood Falls were first observed by Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor during the Terra Nova expedition in 1911.

Waterfalls often draw people in with their sound and movement. Standing near one, you expect to see water fall hard and collect below. Angel Falls in Venezuela does something different. It drops from ...

The breathtaking waters that cascade off of steep cliffs may be self-made productions. It was long thought that waterfalls needed an outside force to form — such as an earthquake, landslide or changes ...