Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

SEATTLE, WA. — August 29 will mark the 20th year since Hurricane Katrina. It was the most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history. It tore through the gulf coast with catastrophic power. Now, 20 ...

Using a simulated disaster scenario of a chemical accident on a highway near their school, Livonia High School students soon discovered how important geographic information systems and imaging science ...

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck southern Spain early Monday morning, shaking over 50 towns and cities including popular tourist destinations along the Almería coast, according to the Spanish ...