The head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a series of actions Wednesday to roll back landmark environmental ...

Under California's Sierra Nevada mountains, a slow yet powerful force will change the entirety of the Earth's crust there.

This study out of the University of Houston points to a new theory that as North America began to split away, the Great Lakes ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck Sunday roughly 7 miles southwest of Westlake Village in Los Angeles County, California, the United States Geological Survey said.

Research unveils a new theory about the origin of the Great Lakes, challenging what we know about their age and formation.

Incorporating solar activity predictions into detailed Earth temperature models may improve seismic forecasts and save lives.

ORCAS, Wash. - A 4.5 magnitude earthquake shook up western Washington and parts of Canada early Monday morning. USGS says ...

A magnitude 3.9 earthquake struck the San Fernando Valley at roughly 10:15 p.m. Sunday night and was felt in and around Los Angeles, according to the United States ...

For those deciding where to start their garden or orchard, Penn State Extension is offering a webinar, “Living on a Few Acres: Soil Fertility and Garden Layout,” ...

The REE-LITH project was inspired by Gibson and Lebedev's hunch that differences in the properties of Earth's lithosphere - the outermost layers of our planet's structure - might play a guiding role ...

Cambridge geoscientists are developing an atlas that could lead to a more complete understanding of how viable rare earth ...