At least 18 people have died in what the National Weather Service (NWS) has called "catastrophic flooding" that hit the South ...

In December 2023, thanks to UNH, the United States grew by one million square kilometers. The U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical miles from our coasts through a geopolitical process ...

A team of Earth scientists affiliated with Peking University and the Southern University of Science and Technology, both in ...

Sometimes rivers split into branches in unusual ways, reflecting the complexity of Earth's water system on land and how much we still must learn about it.

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth.

New research has revealed what could have led to the splitting of two major continents, as evidence from the event can still ...

Heavy rains, damaging winds and dangerous floods have ravaged the South and the Midwest for days, killing at least 23 people.

At least 18 people have died after torrential rain caused significant flooding across several states in the Midwest and South.

Coastal sites subsiding at rates of up to 10 mm/year, making them more vulnerable to sea-level rise, have been pinpointed in ...

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: ...

The split between South America and Africa 135 million years ago was a fiery affair, new research finds. The continental breakup spewed over 3.8 million cubic miles (16 million cubic kilometers) of ...

A deadly severe weather event that ravaged parts of the Mississippi Valley with several tornadoes Wednesday took a bit of a pause on Thursday, briefly sparing the region from another day of ...