The USGS publishes a geological map that reveals the underground layers of the U.S. and supports environmental education and ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

A minor, 3.1-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake rattled the region less than an hour before an annual ...

To test if earthquakes that occur successively at different locations are related to each other — in this case, the twin quakes in Davao Oriental after the one in Cebu — geologists employ a technique ...

Walden became the foundational text for the aesthetic strand of the American environmental movement. Its emphasis on nature’s ...

A series of small earthquakes hit near the Big Bear area in San Bernardino County starting late Saturday night into Sunday ...

HIGHLIGHTS: • Large-Scale & Drill ready Pegmatite Systems Observed: Site visits have confirmed the presence of extensive ...

While treasure hunting might seem like a thing of the past, there are many beaches across the globe where you can search for ...

NHMAIN copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Alan R. Kabat. "The Anthropocene, a term launched into public debate by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, has been used informally ...

Human water management contributes to sinking land across the globe, and it may also be responsible for an unexpected rise ...