World Heritage is a designation given to “places on Earth that are of outstanding universal value to humanity” and therefore ...

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

Sea-level rise caused by climate change poses a serious and often unpredictable threat to coastal forests, and new tools are needed to help mitigate ...

I fall in step with Fagre and two other research scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change ... Alaska—the United States' northernmost city—on a late August day.

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

Getty Images The flurry of rumblings prompted the United States Geological Survey to send out an alert earlier this month — and to install three new seismic stations to monitor it. But the ...

A strong, 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean near Costa Rica on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 1:43 p.m. Eastern about ...

Image source: Getty Images. About half of Americans ... to find out -- and then ranked all 50 states based on those priorities. We'll go over the survey results and then jump into the best states ...

A recent survey conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey has estimated between 5 and 19 million tons of lithium reserves are ...

Most of us never need to use numerical GPS coordinates to take advantage of the many location-based services that are available to us. We simply input an address, or click through ...

"Active" does not ... Getty Images Volcanoes pose many different types of danger to those who live near them. In the case of Kilauea, the United States Geological Survey noticed a marked increase ...

However, it does not eliminate all chemicals ... regions have more minerals in the water than others. The United States Geological Survey has a map of harder water regions. Urban and metropolitan ...