Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The geology, fossils and human stories of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument are part of a common geologic heritage.

Millions of years ago, a volcano created Wheeler Geologic Area. We visited the hoodoo-filled landscape and learned what it ...

A plan to sell public lands was removed, but a federal budget bill still contains steep cuts to agencies and programs that ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

The trigger for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event was the eruption of massive amounts of molten rock in modern day ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

As the House and Senate work on a budget reconciliation bill, people who support public lands and federal agencies that ...

Some relatively new discoveries, and new technologies, tell a remarkable story about New Hampshire’s ancient coastline and ...

It's been 125 years since Interstate State Park opened, followed by 49 others that have helped preserve views and provide ...

The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...