The metropolitan area is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.
Published Apr 25, 2016
Floods and new infrastructure have long since separated the distinctive bend in the river that was portrayed by landscape painter Thomas Cole in 1836.
Published Oct 15, 2017
Valley communes have been growing and consolidating in the Alpine foothills.
Published Jan 1, 2018
This detailed astronaut photograph highlights the Santa Barbara, California, metropolitan area, sometimes called the “American Riviera.”
Published Feb 9, 2009
An ancient collision between continents left a series of fractures in the bedrock around Virginia’s Massanutten Mountains. The event spawned some unusual zig-zagging stretches on the Shenandoah River.
Published Dec 5, 2014
Corrientes, Argentina (sits on the east bank of the Paraná River, South America’s third largest river. Corrientes is located just inside Argentina, across the river from the southwestern tip of Paraguay.
Published Nov 8, 2004
The image shows Goosenecks State Park, where the river is surrounded by canyon walls more than 1,000 feet high.
Published May 13, 2005
This false-color image from April 1, 2002, shows numerous braided channels and oxbow lakes along the Songhua River in northeastern China, just upstream of the city of Harbin.
Published Dec 27, 2005
Alpine in character and perennial in flow, the river is a crucial resource for hydroelectricity, irrigation, transportation, and tourism.
Published Nov 25, 2018
The capital and largest city in Coahuila is sometimes called the “Athens of Mexico.”
Published Oct 19, 2015
