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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The northernmost pieces of the 101-mile Towpath Trail, now under construction in Cleveland, have always had the potential to spur redevelopment and awaken Clevelanders to the ...

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 ...

Termite mounds. They may look like just a big pile of well-structured dirt but they are actually marvels of architecture and fill an unexpectedly important function in the ecosystems in which they ...

The high point of your mound is hostile to plants. Yours is likely made long ago and you've discovered problems there. It may be very difficult to keep plants growing. Most of the time this is due to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 12,000 feet beneath the Greenland Sea, in darkness and crushing pressure, the Freya Hydrate Mounds are quietly ...

Using airborne laser-scanning equipment, archaeologists have discovered vast fields of dome-shaped earthen mounds, arranged into gridded patterns, in 1,000-year-old Cambodian cities. The scientists ...

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 ...