A pair of strong earthquakes has struck off the southern coast of Cuba, inflicting damage and causing landslides.

Think twice before stepping on that crunchy top layer of soil. It may be a vital ecosystem — one that you can help protect.

A new Gold Rush is taking shape on a quiet stretch of Kansas prairie. There, a clutch of startups backed by the likes of Bill Gates are searching below the surface for naturally occurring hydrogen, a ...

The magnetic North Pole is the direction that a compass needle points, and it is not a fixed location; it changes due to ...

There is no economically or environmentally feasible way to lower Bitter Lake, which is one of the three closed basins in the ...

At least two New Orleans agencies tested parametric insurance policies during Hurricane Francine – with mixed results.

Ciscomani said the absence of minerals such as copper, silicon, and fluorine from the Geological Survey's list, although they are on Energy's list, was "confusing to mineral producers and makes it ...

Each type of mineral has a unique crystal structure, which results from its chemical composition and a set of physical properties, such as hardness, color or magnetism, according to the United States ...

But the resource is in short supply globally and especially in the United States. A release this week from the U.S. Geological Survey suggests the U.S. might have all the lithium it needs in ancient ...

Ash and smoke were flung some 3,900 feet into the air after Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupted on Wednesday.

Boron nitride has comparable, but far less understood, physical characteristics to GaN, and may have the potential to perform similarly in some critical applications. “Boron does not have the same ...

A road map for the implementation of a robust early warning system (EWS) for disaster mitigation in the country has been ...