Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Federal cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey have prompted fears of losing vital information on earthquake activity and ...

The tropics, where biodiversity and interactions among species abound, provide an alternative view of relationships between ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

Lake sediment cores in Guatemala reveal directional ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake, offering rare insight into ...

On a gusty day in February, Ben Burke and Johanna Ostrum toured Jennings 1, an idle oil well in Pierce. Hemmed in by a fence ...

Paradoxically, the fact that Pierce is home to two potentially groundbreaking clean energy projects is largely because of its ...

Iceland, the land of ice and fire, is for geologists what the tropics are for ecologists: an opportunity for an unparalleled ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

There’s a lot of history around Garfield County— from the sacred Yampah Vapor Caves in Glenwood Springs, where Native ...