Its new name is Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, meaning either “gizzard creek” or “creek or river belonging to gizzard island” in Unangam ...

Kolkata, Jul 11 (PTI) West Bengal is set to join India's rare earth mining map with the Geological Survey of India (GSI) ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

Friday the 13th was a lucky day this June for the southwest Iowa city of Avoca, pop. 1,700. Restaurants along Main Street had ...

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Guatemala on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological ...

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected at Mount Rainier so far Tuesday morning in the largest such swarm at the active ...

In geology, even small layers can tell big stories. But figuring out the origins of such small layers can be a challenge, ...

A sweeping new study has unveiled a global map of marine mollusks that reflects not just present-day ocean conditions but ...

These automated checkpoints, set up with the support of the Transport Department, utilise weigh-in-motion technology to detect and prevent overloading of vehicles, a statement issued by the state ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

Carolyn Montgomery, 95, has admired Little Compton's stone walls all of her life, and she wants to ensure future generations ...