Yellowstone’s restless ground is on the move again. Since July 2025, instruments on the park’s north rim have recorded ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field seems to rise and fall hand-in-hand with the abundance of oxygen in its atmosphere, a study of geological records spanning the last half billion years has found.

United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientist Mark Stelton (left) and Kenneth Sims, a UW professor of geology and geophysics and a member of the USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, examine a ...

In a recent paper, US Geological Survey (USGS) geologists Geoff Ellis and Sarah Gelman estimated large potential for—and large uncertainty about—the amount of hydrogen accumulations in the world. “We ...

Beneath the Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, a massive underwater volcano is preparing to erupt. Scientists monitoring Axial Seamount have detected a surge in seismic activity, ...

The water cycle is a classic lesson taught in schools nationwide, and now an updated model of the cycle made by BYU professors will be implemented in schools across the country. The big factor the old ...

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Woods Hole, Mass. (February 12, 2024) – Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell, says Frieder Klein, an associate scientist in the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry ...

Writer and director Thunder Levin (the twisted mind behind the Sharknado franchise) has an obvious penchant for smashing seemingly unrelated threats together. He took that philosophy to the ultimate ...