In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully drilled the deepest-ever core sample from Earth's ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

A massive ice sheet once covered much of Canada and the northern U.S., causing land shifts as it melted. New research shows ...

OAK GROVE —Mining for coal under homes can make land sink and settle, exactly what residents of this small community say has ...

When Professor Lorna Dawson was growing up, the plants, crops and soil on and around her father’s Angus farm was a recurring source of interest.

We travel to units of the National Park System to see beautiful landscape, learn about history, view amazing wildlife, and to ...