Geologists have solved the mystery of the disappearance from the geological record, millions of years ago, of one of North ...

Smaller quakes from secondary faults—which are not included in national seismic hazard modeling—occur more frequently than ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

The Colorado River is among the most famous, significant, and culturally iconic bodies of water in the United States. But did ...

Record volcanic eruptions in the Andes could explain the mysterious death of dozens of whales about 5 to 8 million years ago, ...

Since 1972, NASA and the US Geological Survey have been photographing every inch of Earth's land surface without interruption ...

The 12 newly designated geoparks are located in China, France, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, the Russian ...

Maryland became the first state to designate an official shark on April 14, 2026, naming the extinct Otodus megalodon whose ...

For much of the last 485 million years, the global climate fluctuated wildly between extremely hot and extremely cold weather, findings that researchers said have major implications for today’s ...

A new study led by University of Arizona researchers has uncovered how massive volcanic eruptions in the Andes Mountains ...

The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

Climate change is drying out rivers across the country. A new AI forecasting tool can help managers, governments and water ...