Charles Ver Straeten, curator of sedimentary rocks at the New York State Museum, made an unexpected discovery while surveying ...

A Clarion County-based company has received the go-ahead to construct an underground limestone mine in Deemston. The state Department of Environmental Protection on Jan. 21 approved a permit for ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

Despite a shortage of rock salt and ice melt in some Massachusetts communities this winter, some in the Attleboro area say ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

CHICO — With another storm on the way, Butte County Public Works rushed Wednesday afternoon to prevent flooding by clearing sediment and gravel accumulated at the bifurcation of Rock Creek and Keefer ...

Areas scarred by the Eaton Fire are at “high to very high risk” of debris flows this week. How do they happen? What is being ...

With the cooperation of adjacent property owners, crews from Butte County accessed the bifurcation and confirmed a ...

When hills are healthy, vegetation anchors soil in place. But when that vegetation is burned off, hillsides become vulnerable ...

A new study in Chile shows how small differences in rock type can drive large differences in erosion, vegetation, and river networks, illuminating the role of mineralogy in shaping landscapes.