The USGS publishes a geological map that reveals the underground layers of the U.S. and supports environmental education and ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

Near Sedona, Arizona, visitors can find a red-rock haven with creekside trails for all kinds of hikers, nighttime events, and ...

Weeks after the embers cooled from two major wildfires that hit Rio Blanco County this summer, recovery efforts are just ...

Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red ...

The Helena Valley sits atop a variety of different sediments and rocks, making it particularly susceptible to earthquake ...

"The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice" looks at ancient sediment pulled from beneath ice sheet that was stored at ...

Randy Fox's ring spent 29 years in a Kerrville sewer line. A series of odd coincidences led to it being found and returned to ...