So the magnetic north pole is drifting away from Canada toward Russia. This continued in the year just passed, and the newest ...

Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured ...

Mountain building occurred all around the Yellowstone region and highlights a tortured geological history of uplift and volcanism. The Gallatin Range, just northeast of Yellowstone Caldera, is an ...

Buried in the reddish soil of southern China lies latent power: one of the largest clusters of crucial rare earths is mined ...

On December 6, 2025, the St. Elias mountain range was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on the Canadian Yukon/ Alaska border.

Mars planners are increasingly treating ice not just as a resource to drink or split for rocket fuel, but as a structural material that could shape the first real neighborhoods on another world.

A wildfire burned through the hills of Los Angeles in early 2025. Schools closed, emergency alerts buzzed across phones, and emergency crews scrambled to get ahead of the flames as Southern California ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The U.S. Geological Survey plans to start low-level plane flights this month across eastern Iowa. The project is part of a national effort to find mineral resources and ...

Part 2: The search to identify underground resources is often done from the sky. Here’s how that scientific magic happens Helicopters sporting long appendages are flying over some rural areas of the ...

USGS released its most detailed national geologic map, offering layered views of geology beneath the Earth’s surface across the lower 48 states. The Cooperative National Geologic Map integrates data ...