Beneath the surface of the United States, the Earth's crust is slowly sinking, leading to the emergence of a new geological ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

NBC Bay Area's SkyRanger helicopter captured several dolphins gliding through the sparkling waters of the Pacific Ocean on Friday morning. The helicopter found the twirling pod of dolphins while ...

The magnetic north pole is once again on the move—this time inching ever closer to Siberia. Scientists released an updated ...

The ocean is a vital part of our planet's climate system. Through its global circulation patterns, the ocean draws vast quantities of our planet's heat and carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation ...

It was a record-setting hurricane and will rank up there with some of the previous heavy-hitting storms from hurricane ...