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Ever since the great magnitude 9.2 earthquake shook Alaska 50 years ago today, scientists have suspected that the quake's rupture halted at the...

As a large pulse of water is being released into the former delta of the Colorado River along the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Geological Survey...

Newly released US Topo maps  for Utah now feature a new commercial road data provider.

The practice of emergency post-fire seeding in sagebrush landscapes of the Great Basin, which was meant to stabilize soils, has not resulted in...

Why does the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake Matter 50 Years Later? Scientific experts will talk about a half-century of scientific and monitoring...

The North Atlantic region is a newly discovered important pathway for avian influenza to move between Europe and North America, according to a U.S...

In a finding authors are coining an "unintentional rewilding," scientists identified a cave dung deposit as belonging to bighorn sheep that became...

Invasive Burmese pythons in South Florida are able to find their way home even when moved far away from their capture locations, a finding that has...

Invasive Burmese pythons in South Florida are able to find their way home even when moved far away from their capture locations, a finding that has...

Last year, the estimated value of mineral production in the U.S. was $74.3 billion, a slight decrease from $75.8 billion in 2012. According to the U.S...