Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major ...

Three of the great tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust meet at the Mendocino Triple Junction, off the Humboldt ...

A series of slowly widening fissures in southern Ethiopia once again drew the attention of scientists and authorities to one ...

Far beneath central Turkey, a dense slab of rock is peeling away from the bottom of the continent and sinking into the mantle ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

"The directive could make us a national leader in this space," Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said at the Detroit Auto Show.

Driving up a dirt road to the small produce stand at Bear Butte Gardens just outside Sturgis, one would never imagine the ...

The United Nations has recognized China-Cambodia joint research in the karst critical zone as a prime example of South-South ...

Countries worldwide have eyes on Greenland for its natural resources, but the island only has one fully operational mine. We ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...