The USGS publishes free topographic maps that show trails, rivers, and campsites in great detail for hikers, cyclists, and ...

Tornadoes can happen at any time of the year in the U.S due to the country's topography and proximity to water.

Scientists have found that oceanic manta rays routinely make extreme dives of more than 1,200 meters – three-quarters of a ...

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

Sizable Energy has a plan to store excess renewable energy in flexible reservoirs out at sea. The startup has raised $8 million to test prototypes.

In the Owens Valley, Los Angeles siphons water from Sierra streams and also pumps groundwater from wells. Native tribes are ...

Hidden beneath Michigan’s forests, researchers have uncovered vast ancient farmlands built by ancestral Menominee communities ...

Does it sometimes seem like every single inch of Earth has been discovered? Far from it. But scientists are working on it.

Few states have a bolder style than New Mexico. This is the land of adobe dwellings, otherworldly rock formations, and the ...

New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could ...