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Durango Nature Studies will offer its Geology Rocks workshop from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Durango Nature Center, south of Durango. Program facilitator Brooks Mitchell will discuss the ...

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 ...

Professor Emeritus of Geology John Creasy, whose appointment to the Bates faculty in 1975 ushered in the thriving modern era for geology studies at Bates, died June 21. He was 71 years old. Creasy ...

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 ...

Everyone knows that water runs downhill. But what about watersheds? Where does that water drain? Knowing these answers can help save lives and reduce property damage during large rainfall events.

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 ...

The most destructive wildfire in Colorado’s history began on Sept. 6, 2010. For four days, it burned an area roughly 10 square miles around Fourmile Canyon. It destroyed 168 homes, more than any ...

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.

Geology is the study of the Earth, the materials of which it is made of, the structure of those materials, and the processes acting upon them. It includes the study of organisms that have inhabited ...