As Utah continues to experience its worst snowpack levels on record — as reported by the Salt Lake Tribune — northern Utah’s ...

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

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 ...

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Learn more about the Green River and how a lithospheric drip may have led to the river flowing 'uphill.' ...

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The finding "may be the hidden answer to more tectonic mysteries than we’ve previously realized," said geologist Adam Smith.

Geologist Adam Smith from the University of Glasgow in Scotland led a team to interrogate this long-held mystery. It turns out, the Green River did not have to flow uphill at all: instead, the ...

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

Rock glaciers have also proven to be more resilient to changes like elevation-dependent warming, which means that the mountains are warming faster than lowlands. That’s, on average, 0.08 degrees ...

The Ute Indian Tribe argued that it had compensable title over 1.5 million of its total 1.9 million acres in northeastern ...