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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

Stories have surfaced of animals such as polar bears fighting off new diseases, and sometimes losing that fight.

They can do that? Scanning the earth’s crust 3,300 feet below ground from the air looking for minerals might sound far-fetched, but the science is ...