The government has identified several areas in the northeast region enriched with critical and strategic minerals which are ...

Keen-eyed internet sleuths have spotted what appears to be a massive skull lurking in the waters of a Canadian Island.

Nestled in the heart of Gainesville sits a natural wonder so unexpected, so beautifully bizarre, that it feels like stepping into another dimension – Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park, where ...

How would you go about identifying usable land that suits your building tastes? [Scott Sexton] was specifically, looking for ...

A minor, 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

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 ...

The Trump administration’s proposed budget bill would cut funding to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) by nearly 40%, ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 21, 2025, Section A, Page 16 of the New York edition with the headline: Maps Might Be Lost as Cuts Threaten Geological Surveys.

Look up and you may spot a quirky-looking plane flying low in the sky. The plane is meant to be there, federal officials say. And it’s on a mission: to improve maps. Outfitted with an elongated ...

Google adds Gulf of America to its maps but scrubbed Pride from its calendar “Gulf of America” is now officially on a U.S. database of geographic names after President Donald Trump issued an ...

Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated map from the U.S. Geological Survey.