A Stanford study challenges the expectation of large sediment deposits from a 34-million-year-old climate shift, finding ...

Geologists can use cosmic rays from outer space to piece together the timing of past geologic events, like volcanic eruptions ...

Using high-precision dating of geologic regions, scientists have found evidence that one of the most significant warming ...

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

Many people in the U.S. may be drinking water with "forever chemicals" in it, according to a  U.S Geological Survey ...

Earthquakes are among the most powerful natural forces on Earth, often causing widespread devastation, triggering tsunamis and altering the landscape of a region. But how strong was the strongest ...

Environmentalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner once famously wrote, “National parks are the best idea we ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought.

The new mammal lived in Colorado 70 to 75 million years ago -- a time when a vast inland sea covered large portions of the ...

Approximately 71 to 95 million people in the Lower 48 states—more than 20% of the country's population—may rely on ...

As a result, he added, the current evidence for a cosmic impact is based heavily on the measurements taken from the more ...

Geologists can use cosmic rays from outer space to piece together the timing of past geologic events, like volcanic eruptions and glaciations. But how does this work? It turns out that rocks, like ...