Snow in the Rockies now silently carries toxic metals from mines, revealing long-range pollution by winter storms.

After a five-year fight, a US District Court for the District of Arizona granted a temporary restraining order to block a ...

Hard to believe that a national park is less than four hours from Los Angeles. From the beach to the desert to the mountains, ...

Mojave Desert — A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck July 29 about 13 miles northeast of Barstow. Unshaken is the L.A. Times newsletter guide to earthquake readiness and resilience. Sign up for ...

It’s an oasis rich in water, in the Big Sandy River basin, where the Mojave and Sonoran deserts ... Indian Reservation in Parker, Arizona, a desert area that, according to the Hualapai Tribe ...

Fourteen Hilltoppers spent their 2014 spring break week examining the geology of Death Valley and the Mojave Desert as part of a field-based geology course facilitated by Study Away at WKU. Dr. Andrew ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Spring is the time for renewal for many animals — birds building nests and laying eggs, fawns being born, grass and ...