It's no secret that Florida's iconic coral reefs are in trouble. Repeated body blows from hurricanes, pollution, disease, ...

Construction crews have helped excavate the first fossils in Dinosaur National Monument in more than 100 years. The bones, which belonged to a massive sauropod, were discovered during work on a ...

Taylor's adventures renewed the debate over whether Mexican gray wolves should be confined to the recovery area.

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.

Four miles beneath the Permian Basin's arid Texas terrain, advanced drilling has revealed 1.6 billion barrels of oil locked ...

A 2.2 magnitude earthquake was reported near Elgin, South Carolina, early Tuesday morning. The USGS confirms the earthquake ...

An earthquake with a 3.8 magnitude shook central Illinois early Tuesday and Missouri residents are reporting that they felt the tremors as well. Residents can submit a "felt report" to the U.S.

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

The bulk of New Mexicans’ drinking water comes from below ground, but huge gaps in data on the state’s groundwater make it ...

The USGS found 1.6 billion barrels of new oil reserves in the Permian Basin. But the ‘massive’ discovery presents new ...

The United States Geological Survey will conduct low-level flights to evaluate geology and aquifers in parts of eastern New ...

Many of the state’s largest earthquakes have struck near the junction, where the Pacific, North American and Gorda plates ...