There is more to waterfalls than we thought. We don’t have a full understanding of how they form, but some may arise all on their own, without any clear influence from the surrounding terrain.

What is a waterfall, exactly? “It can be controversial,” Mark Oleg Ozboyd said the other day, in Rabun County, Georgia. “There are fifty different answers.” Ozboyd leans conservative when it comes to ...

Canadian canoeist Adam Shoalts employs a “boots-on-the-ground” approach to mapping Quebec’s waterways, which had never before been properly mapped. He returned to the Again River in August and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Summer is heating up and it's getting harder to spend time outside, beautiful as it may be. Luckily, the clear cold water in the ...

People travel the world to seek out waterfalls, from Iguazu Falls in South America to Iceland’s Gulfoss. Some studies even show that being in the presence of waterfalls can boost one’s mood and reduce ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Sands covers travel and the hospitality industry. There are over 7,800 documented waterfalls in the world. Of these, only 31 ...

You don't have to drive all the way to the North Carolina mountains to see beautiful waterfalls this season - there are ...