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Far from being quiet, frozen backwaters, the icy moons of the outer solar system are starting to look like some of the most violently active worlds around. New modeling and lab work suggest that ...

4-week course in New Mexico studying geologic field methods and the geologic history of North America The incomparable scenery and geology of the Colorado Plateau in northwestern New Mexico and the ...

As the country continues to explore ways to efficiently and safely capture carbon dioxide emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, a recently completed study by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and ...

What came first: the bipedal human ancestor or the grassland encroaching on the forest? A new analysis of the past 12 million years' of vegetation change in the cradle of humanity is challenging ...

Orrin Pilkey, James B. Duke professor emeritus of geology, is remembered as a longtime advocate for research-informed coastal management, a nationally recognized science communicator and a unifying ...

Follow the Hudson River a few miles north of New York City and look west across the water, and you’ll see a series of cliffs called the Palisades, made of dark gray volcanic rocks called diabase.