While the wet weather may bring an end to a devastating run of wildfires in the state, it could also cause flooding and other hazards.

Using the newly developed method, researchers extracted crevasses from digital elevation models of the ice sheet surface. The maps show how crevasse changed between 2016 and 2021 over glaciers at the ...

The work was found in a rock shelter located to the south of Paris, France, that features prehistoric engravings ...

A recent U.S. Geological Survey study projects that rising sea levels and stronger, more intense storms will exacerbate four specific coastal hazards and associated management challenges for Cape ...

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon ...

The California fires, which started Jan. 7, have already burned more than 50,000 acres in Los Angeles, San Diego, and ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

Hubbard, who first joined the USGS as a postdoc, is part of the agency’s Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI).

(KILAUEA, HI) -- One of the world’s most active volcanoes, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, erupted for the seventh time since ...

Residents throughout New England and Boston felt the ground shake beneath their feet Monday when an earthquake struck off the coast of Maine. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the 3.8-magnitude ...