For Jude Kastens, who grew up on a farm in northwest Kansas, rainfall was always serious business. Although flooding wasn't ...

In a surprising twist to our understanding of the moon’s chemical stability, a Chinese mission has unearthed evidence of rust ...

USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing ...

Russia holds nearly 10% of global rare-earth reserves but produces just 0.64% of the supply. Putin ordered a national plan by ...

The United States Geological Survey has released a mobile-friendly interactive geological map of the lower 48 states and it's completely free to use.

A magnitude 2.7 earthquake was reported in central Oklahoma late Tuesday. Past seismic activity in the state has been linked to wastewater disposal from oil and gas operations. Concerns are growing ...

So we know that SNAP benefits are being paused for the month of November, and so many people across our area are looking for places to get free food. There's an easy tool where you can find exactly ...

ORONO, Maine — Inside a geology lab at the University of Maine, graduate researcher Lauren Madsen carefully studies rock samples taken from northern Maine. These samples come from a little-known ...