Matt LaFever has reported on California’s North Coast in print and radio for nearly a decade. A Humboldt State grad and ...

Scientists found millions of Americans may be regularly exposed to dangerous levels of arsenic, and they may not even know it ...

The geology, fossils and human stories of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument are part of a common geologic heritage.

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity beneath a long-dormant volcano.

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

The mineral-rich Arctic island is open for tourism. Locals want to show what makes Greenland unique beyond a recent ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.

CaveCreek4.jpg Penelope Donahue points out fossils in the limestone of the opening of Cave Creek Cave while on a June 8 hike in Santa Fe National Forest. The limestone, which is around 300 million ...

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...