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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

At first glance, you’d be forgiven for mistaking these photos as showing rivers of volcanic lava. But the images are really of a waterfall inside Yosemite National Park - and the liquid is merely ...

We were a little dubious about this invention, since who among us didn’t break a leg trying to hook up a water hose to a swing set when they were a kid? But the coolest part of the Waterfall Swing is ...

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 ...

From the hot tropics of Hawaii to the lush forests of Thailand, we've rounded up the most beautiful and breathtaking photos of waterfalls from all over the world. This photo shows the low waterfall of ...

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 ...