A new study finds only 17 per cent of the world’s peatlands are in protected areas, a vast under-protection considering how critical they are to carbon storage, biodiversity and water regulation. But ...

Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.

The department is working on longer-term solutions with seven consultants that include looking at each drainage basin within the ... No written documents, no maps, no photos, nothing to review ...

The river’s drainage basin covers about 40% of the area of the USA ... One way is to look at a country map and identify the rivers in mountainous regions. These rivers typically originate from melting ...

That includes breathing some life into an idea that sounded fanciful mere months ago: Transporting oil across the northern Manitoba muskeg and filling tankers at a port on Hudson Bay. A map ...

A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday ... prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that ...

As of Thursday, how the Gulf appeared on Google Maps was dependent on the user's location and other data. If the user is in the United States, the body of water appeared as Gulf of America.

"We've received a few questions about naming within Google Maps," the company said in a previous X post. "We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in ...

Fire crews continued to battle a wildfire Tuesday that spread over nearly 10 square miles of remote terrain a few miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in south San Diego County. "Firefighters ...

Night - Cloudy. Winds NE at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 35 °F (1.7 °C). Flurries with a high of 35 °F (1.7 °C) and a 80% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 5 to 6 mph (8 ...

Make sure that your containers have drainage holes. Water should start to drain out of the bottom every time you water. Plastic containers are the generic choice for plant nurseries - and for a ...