The higher up you go into the hills and mountains the more snow you are going to find. The temperatures above 1000 feet ...

"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

My wife and I enjoy hiking off trail and for our bushwhacking adventures, we use a paper topographic map, a compass and a handheld GPSR.

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Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...

Hubbard, who first joined the USGS as a postdoc, is part of the agency’s Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI).

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I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

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