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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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 ...

A light, 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...

The tremor struck at 6:34 p.m. and was located 2.3 miles northwest of Cobb, a census designated place 41 miles north of Santa ...

Dorothy and Toto aren’t the only ones known to hitch a ride on a passing severe weather event. A map from the U.S. Geological ...

An earthquake was felt in parts of Ohio and northeast Indiana early Sunday. According to the United States Geological Survey ...

Because Florida was hit by two hurricanes weeks apart, experts say there is a lot of possible overlap when it comes to ...

The Alaska Division of Geological &Geophysical Surveys completed a comprehensive landslide hazard assessment for the city, the division reported in a Dec. 11 press release.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego works to understand and protect the planet and find solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges. Humankind faces catastrophic changes in ...