At first glance, the Caspian Sea appears as an ocean stretching endlessly to the horizon, lapping the shores of five nations.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, happens to share some truly remarkable geophysical and geological processes with our home ...

New experimental results have cast doubt on earlier proposals suggesting that spherical, cell-like membranes could form in ...

The question of whether the Caspian is a lake or a sea often arises, with the answer being both, depending on perspective. Scientifically, it is a lake, being landlocked and primarily fed by rivers, ...

Scientists find K'gari’s lakes dried out 7,500 years ago, challenging assumptions that they remained full since the last ice age.

Due to the extremely cold climate, Lake Unter-See remains covered in ice year-round.

K’gari’s iconic lakes have existed for tens of thousands of years—but they haven’t always been full. New research shows that about 7,500 years ago, during a time of high rainfall, several of the ...

Blackwater lakes and rivers in the Congo Basin are releasing carbon up to 3,500 years old, raising concerns about the ...

Sørvágsvatn, the largest lake in the Faroe Islands, which is also known as Leitisvatn, lies above the Atlantic Ocean and is ...

Deep in the Congo Basin, vast peatlands quietly store enormous amounts of Earth’s carbon — but new research suggests this ancient vault may be leaking. Scientists studying Africa’s largest blackwater ...

One sunny July morning, on a lake in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, two scientists skimmed a black inflatable raft back and ...