These two Utah workers were among thousands of federal employees fired recently to purge what the Trump administration ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has made an exciting discovery on Mars, identifying new types of ancient rocks that could be the ...

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President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia should speed up plans to mine its deposits of lithium, a metal crucial for the production of high-capacity electric batteries, and other critical ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A new study says nitrate levels in groundwater are improving in the Driftless Area of southeastern ...

Alaska, largely unspoiled wilderness, looks like something out of The Lord of the Rings.

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world's mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them ...

I recently ran into an acquaintance who relayed a story about a colleague’s scientific paper stuck in limbo because its ...

A newly published study by researchers at the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), the University of Minnesota's Minnesota Geological Survey, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ...

NASA's Landsat 8 satellite snapped a stunning top-down view of an "unusually spectacular" Mount Etna eruption. Infrared data makes the volcano's lava river really pop.

A small earthquake rattled the tiny town of Christopher Creek, Arizona, in Gila County early Wednesday. The earthquake shook ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano continues to create towering lava fountains amid its latest cycle, as the volcano continues its weeks-long eruptions, according to the latest update from the U.S. Geological ...