For more than a century, the Green River's course through the Uinta Mountains in Utah's northeast has been a geological ...

Rivers typically avoid massive mountain ranges–and they flow downhill, as gravity pulls water downward. However, the Green ...

Millions of years ago, the Green River carved a path through the Uinta Mountains instead of flowing around the formation. Now ...

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Based on how far the drip fell and how fast it descended, scientists estimate that it broke off two to five million years ago ...

Rivers always take the easy route. Most start in the highlands before submitting to gravity and flowing down towards the sea, weaving around whatever obstacles they might find in their path. But the ...

New research may have solved an American mystery which has baffled geologists for a century and a half: How did a river carve ...

The Last of Us has a new actor joining its ranks. Showrunners are recasting the character of Manny after Danny Ramirez’s exit ...

A 3.5 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Utah Thursday, the second felt in two weeks. The tremors come as experts remap the ...

“It’s such a weird path,” said Adam Smith, a researcher in numerical modeling at the University of Glasgow, describing a ...

This makes the story of how the Green and Colorado Rivers met so perplexing to geologists like Adam Smith at Scotland’s ...

This aligns with preexisting estimates of when the river probably carved through the Uinta Mountains—creating a canyon that today is 2,297 feet (700 meters) deep—and joined the Colorado system. In ...