Geomorphology

Torrential rainfalls in the quake-hit provinces, where efforts are ongoing to remove piles of rubble from collapsed buildings, can increase the risk of deadly debris flows carried away by floodwaters, warns an expert.

Professor Bojan Mohar from the Ljubljana Faculty of Mathematics has become the first Slovenian researcher to win the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant. He will be part of an international team researching the dynamics of karst watercourses and the occurrence of phenomena in extreme situations such as floods and droughts.

Researchers believe that huge, continent-spanning ‘flood basalt’ eruptions are what caused the mass extinction – and others in Earth’s history

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico's Caribbean coast.

Dubbed as the "pearl of eastern Mediterranean," Turkey's Mersin province welcomes diving enthusiasts with its 321-kilometer-long coastline, submarine canyons and natural wonders. (AA Photo)

Located in the southern province of Mersin, the historical sinkholes, one of which is called "Heaven" with its 70-meter-deep green nature, and the other called "Hell" with its 128-meter-scary structure, are expecting to host 500,000 tourists in a year with their renewed look.

“The figure was scarcely visible and was about to disappear because it’s situated on quite a steep slope that’s prone to the effects of natural erosion”

Lightning strikes inside the Arctic circle may double this century, sparking widespread tundra fires and increasing the risk of setting off the carbon time bomb held within permafrost, new research showed on April 5.

Dust clouds blowing from Europe will cover Turkey's sky until the next week, a Turkish academic has said.

An Istanbul-based meteorologist, Hüseyin Toros, told state-run Anadolu Agency that desert dust storms that hit Europe and have been active throughout the week are now heading toward Turkey starting from today.

The number of sinkholes has risen substantially in a year due to the excessive use of groundwater for irrigation purposes in the Konya Plain in the central Turkish province, which is known as the "grain silo" of Turkey due to its vast wheat fields.