Across Louisiana, long earthen ridges and conical hills rise from flat ground, some tucked behind campus buildings, others ...

A vast landscape of termite mounds that predate ancient Rome have been discovered in northeastern Brazil. Scientists estimate there are approximately 200 million mounds 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) high ...

Questions: Termite mounds are important sources of local-scale soil heterogeneity and thereby affect savanna vegetation. Studies contrasting mound and savanna vegetation usually neglect variation ...

Pictured here: Arthur Edwin (A.E.) Bye's stone-and-grass mounds in July 2017. The mounds have served as gathering spaces, shaded picnic areas, and interactive climbing features since their ...

In the rain-starved deserts of coastal Peru, tiny patches surprisingly rich in plant life dot the landscape. Burrowing birds may be responsible, scientists say. Mounds of sand shoveled out by ...

Since 2023, archaeologists of the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt (LDA) have been examining large areas on the Eulenberg near Magdeburg in advance of construction ...

Giant earthworms that can grow to be as long as three feet are responsible for strange mounds of soil found in the wetlands of Venezuela and Colombia, scientists report in the journal PLOS ONE. The ...

Brooklyn’s first park may be getting a new entrance that some say would open up the green space to the neighborhood. But opponents contend that the renovation would erase significant historic fabric, ...