Lava floods, ice age floods and the ancestral Columbia River carved the steep canyons and coulees we see in Eastern Washington today. And within just the past 95 years, humans used these natural ...

In collaboration with fellow UM professor Don Hyndman, the “Roadside Geology” book series was born, bringing the excitement of rocks and the stories that rocks have to tell to the general public.

LANSING, MI -- Michigan motorists may soon be subjected to roadside saliva drug tests, which studies show are imperfect. A package of House bills, 4390 and 4391, would allow police to give the ...

Four out of five cities and towns in Massachusetts added residents between 2023 and 2024, with the state’s population rising 1.9% since 2020, according to new Census Bureau estimates ...

It's been a while since any part of Massachusetts has been able to make the claim that it is drought-free. But Central Massachusetts is now officially drought free, according to Energy and ...

Rob Thomas, Ph.D., a distinguished professor of geology at the University of Montana Western in Dillon, posted Monday about the earthquake, registered just before 1 a.m. by the USGS.

The family of a Massachusetts man who died after a tick bite wants everyone to take ticks seriously and, if you get bitten by one, go see a doctor. Erin Boyce remembers the day her brother Kevin ...

Nagpur: Following two recent deaths in separate accidents involving water tankers used to irrigate roadside plants along highways, traffic police have urged the National Highways Authority of ...

Nearly everyone agrees that perhaps the biggest threat to Massachusetts’ economy is that people — and particularly young people — are moving away because housing is so expensive here.

For answers, they turned to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — and to UMass Lowell environmental science ...

The Minutewomen open the season on August 14 against St. John’s at Rudd Field. AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts women's soccer and head coach Jason Dowiak announced the team's 2025 regular ...