Rare earths are among the most critical raw materials on the planet, deeply embedded in the technologies that underpin modern ...

Dashcam footage recorded from a highway in Anderson, South Carolina, showed a bright object with a tail streaking through the ...

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

Researchers and environmental officials are keeping track of PFAS, or forever chemicals, turning up in the bodies of local ...

A magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck deep off the coast of the southern Philippines on Saturday, the United States Geological ...

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The journal Science has published a paper by Jen Pierce, a professor in the Department of Geosciences, and 19 co-authors from ...

Local scientists warn that the proposed federal cuts to the United States Geological Survey’s Ecosystem Mission Area — a ...

Hope is on the horizon for test wells to assess what neighbors in two communities have insisted is interfering with the ...

A magnitude 2.3 earthquake happened Thursday afternoon about 1.24 miles south--southeast of Madison in Lake County.

US Geological Survey carries out first resource assessment of government-owned lands since 1998 - before the shale revolution ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is erupting again in spectacular fashion, sending lava shooting 1,000 feet into the sky, according to the United States Geological Survey.