Residents in Reno, Nevada, were left stunned on June 19 when a flash flood swept through their neighborhood. The sudden torrent turned a residential street into a raging river, leaving locals with no ...

Hundreds of people were trapped in high water along the rain-swollen Black River as flash flooding unleashed by torrential rains from a wave of thunderstorms struck the Ozark Mountains in rural ...

GRANBY, Colo. – High in the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud in what were once spongy meadows. This year has been so extremely warm and arid ...

This story appears in the October 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. The boat is dangerously encumbered. It pushes three barges by means of an engine that was built to convey about 750 tons.

Estuaries are dynamic ecosystems that have some of the highest biotic diversity and levels of production in the world. Humans have had a long relationship with the ebb and flow of estuaries around the ...