Nearly two dozen state geological surveys depend heavily on federal funds. A proposed budget cut could slow or stop key ...

The USGS partners on this effort with the Michigan Geological Survey, the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, ...

Sinkholes can lead to road damage, inconvenience, and in some cases, injury. What causes them?

In downtowns, impervious surfaces like concrete and asphalt on roads, buildings, and highways trap heat and emit it later, ...

You might think you know all of Earth’s continents, but there’s one that has remained hidden for millions of years. Zealandia, a massive landmass mostly submerged beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean, ...

Emerging science shows geologic hydrogen, created under the Earth's crust naturally, may exist in pools that can be extracted for clean energy. A U.S. Geological Survey study of where geologic ...

Several of Mount Rainier’s glaciers are already gone, experts say, and others aren’t far behind. The News Tribune asked what ...

Wyoming is many things to many people, but public land is why they come and why they stay, writes guest columnist Chris Madson.

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

Straddling the border of Cumbria and Northumberland like a dithering Geordie, the village of Gilsland is home to an famous ...