In 2024, the U.S. Northeast faced severe drought, prompting lessons on water management from cities like Cape Town and São Paulo. Proactive conservation and planning can mitigate future crises.

Two gargantuan canyons on the moon were carved by a hailstorm of rocks — and that’s good news for future lunar astronauts.

Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

For 16 years, the Buffalo National River has denied explorers access to Arkansas’s longest cave and hundreds of others. Some ...

Or at least on top of Twentynine Palms, which is pretty impressive in its own right. The views stretch out for miles, showcasing the rugged beauty of the Mojave Desert. It’s like someone took all the ...

Dragging yourself into the great outdoors sounds amazing – until you’re an hour into a seven-hour hike, wondering ...

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

The L.A. Times Features team shares the places that have helped them amid uncertainty, be it a hot spring, cool desert, ...

This lodge is all about its spectacular location, within a national monument and between two national parks. It also has fire pits, free s'mores, and access to endless trails and rivers.

Archaeologists discovered clusters of red ocher drawings scattered on rocks and cliffs across Canaima National Park—and have some theories on who made the mysterious art.

Scientists have discovered evidence that California is actually peeling apart below the surface, as dense rocks under the ...