Earth scientists are fine-tuning the fractal nature of small lakes to test how much they contribute to the global lake surface area. ->

Surfing may be all about being one with the great ocean, but you don't actually need to a massive body of water to find the perfect wave. Thanks to odd natural conditions, rivers and lakes can be great places to hang ten, if you know where to go. These eight locations around the world are [...]

Move over Angry Birds, people can get launched and soar through the air now -- and without the use of a slingshot. Unlike blob jumping, where people are launched by a downward force, people now get propelled by pulling them from the front, by use of a rope and an ATV, as seen in a [...]

Despite the massive wildfires that have swept the western U.S. in recent years, the region has barely begun paying down the huge fire deficit it has accumulated over the last 100 years.

Not even kryptonite can destroy this super-strength sweetener.

Fishermen caught a three-eyed fish in a reservoir that receives water from a nuclear plant in Argentina.

The National Weather Service is warning Chicago and its suburbs of shoreline flooding from Lake Michigan as Hurricane Sandy could blow waves across the Great Lakes as high as 23 feet.

Flushing unused antibiotics down the toilet is leading to a growing problem of drug-resistant bacteria.