Fire officials are investigating what started multiple wildfires raging near Los Angeles. The Santa Ana winds are likely driving their rapid growth.

Scientists have now discovered landforms created during the MPT, as glaciers retreated across what is now the North Sea. The new study relied on seismic data to locate possible areas for fossil fuel ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, because "it's ours." Who owns ...

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More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with ...

The structure of the ocean floor is extremely vast and irregular. In 1948, when Marie Tharp started working at the Lamont ...

Chinese state media said at least 126 people had died in the magnitude 7.1 quake near an area of religious significance in ...

In an almost offhand digression Tuesday, president-elect Donald Trump idly mentioned he was going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the ...

In the mid-1800s, the U.S. Department of the Interior began the “great surveys” to map the vast, uncharted land of the West, ...

A map from the U.S. Geological Survey shows that 222 possible non-native species had the potential to spread in Georgia and ...