Jeremy Bohanan In summer, it’s a blessed relief from the Missouri heat. In winter, it feels almost warm compared to the ...

Stand at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and look down. The banded rock walls dropping nearly a mile to the Colorado River ...

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

Learn more about what we know — and don’t know — about the Carnian Pluvial Event.

Florida is famous for many things, but dramatic underground cave systems typically aren’t on that list. Yet Florida Caverns ...

A new geological study reshapes the timeline of a major tectonic collision that helped form the Andes, suggesting key events ...

Mark Clementz, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Geology and Geophysics, and colleagues have produced a ...

The researchers focused on exceptionally well-preserved sedimentary rocks deposited on ancient seafloors in what is now southern Sweden. How can we measure time more than 500 million years into the ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The asteroid that ...

Much of our understanding about the earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and floods that shaped the geology of the Pacific Northwest comes from Western scientists. But those records almost always overlook ...

What was the West like a thousand years ago, a million years ago — even a billion years ago? And how is that history still visible and consequential today? These were the driving questions behind the ...