Federal efforts to install additional seismometers around Glacier Peak have been delayed by ground conditions and logistical ...

Ever wonder where the highest bluff is along the Cape Cod National Seashore? We figure out where it is and then hike out there!

In May, New Mexico received an $18.9 million federal grant to detect “forever chemicals” in the state’s drinking water. This class of chemicals, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, dubbed ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

A massive ice sheet once covered much of Canada and the northern U.S., causing land shifts as it melted. New research shows ...

A small earthquake was reported by the United States Geological Survey near the Ohio River on Thursday morning.

With an estimated 20,000 whales dying from ship strikes each year, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Mass ...

The quality of New York’s drinking water—and the complex system that delivers it to each New Yorker’s tap—has long been a ...