Scientists flood the Grand Canyon to restore sandbanks and save ...
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A man-made flood is roaring through the Grand Canyon in a bold experiment to restore the sandbanks of the Colorado river and to save fish and plants that have been disappearing over the past 40 years.
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The effort by scientists from more than 60 countries aims to understand the dynamics of life at the ends of the earth.
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By DIRK MEISSNER  VICTORIA (CP) - Pounding rains and rising river waters had some northwest B.C. residents piling sandbags to protect their homes against what the province said Monday would be inevitable flooding.
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More than 135 years after explorer John Wesley Powell first surveyed this ancient canyon, his writings seemed to echo last week as water roared down the Colorado River.
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Scientists have been sailing across the Atlantic in a bid to track down sand from the Sahara Desert.
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(National-NBC) Oct. 1, 2004 - Scientists in Utah are finishing the job of salvaging material from the remains of the Genesis Space Capsule.
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BEIJING - A massive floodcrest passed safely through the Three Gorges Dam on China&#39;s Yangtze River yesterday as devastated communities upstream cleaned up from floods that killed at least 177 people and injured thousands.
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A desert in China&#39;s Inner Mongolia that has the highest sand dunes in the world holds a vast store of underground water which, if used wisely, could ease the chronic water shortage afflicting the north of the country, a study says.
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A steady stream of tourists drove to the Grand Canyon&#039;s North Rim on Monday after a highway closure prompted by a 58,600-acre wildfire was lifted.
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Great Lakes water levels have rebounded from near record lows thanks to months of heavy rain, providing a boon to boat owners, swimmers and fish, scientists said on Friday.
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Environmentalists have complained for years that the Colorado River below a manmade dam was washing away natural sediment in the Grand Canyon, wiping away beaches and native fish and plants.
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Rescuers succeeded in saving most of the whales still stranded on beaches in Australia and New Zealand as scientists pinpointed cyclical weather patterns as a likely cause of increased beachings.
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It wasn&#39;t anywhere near as big as Noah&#39;s worldwide flood -- but evidence is pouring in from a Mars-orbiting satellite that a vast plain on the Red Planet must once have held a deep ocean bigger than all the Great Lakes put together.
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Along with their destructive force, hurricanes can have beneficial effects as part of the rhythm of nature. Storms that erode beaches, uproot trees and flatten wildlife habitats may also refresh waterways, revive dry areas and bulk up barrier islands with redistributed sand.
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HOBART, Australia : Rescuers succeeded in saving most of the whales still stranded on beaches in Australia and New Zealand as scientists pinpointed cyclical weather patterns as a likely cause of increased beachings.
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Thousands of scientists from across the world join forces this week to investigate the effects of global warming on the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets.
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By Greg Lavine, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.  Feb. 21--A new National Academy of Sciences report indicates that more  droughts and reduced flow of the Colorado River are problems that water  managers and scientists need to plan for now.