Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

AI and Google Street View have created 'digital twins' of living trees in North American cities – part of a huge simulation ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

Only a few weeks ago, massive precipitation produced by the storm 'Boris' led to chaos and flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. An analysis shows that in a world without the current level of global ...

Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage ...

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement on Thursday reported that in response to Hurricane Rafael in the Gulf of Mexico, an estimated 22.4% of ...

Ohio voters rejected a constitutional amendment Tuesday that would have established a citizen-led redistricting commission to ...

Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth. The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works ...

Doctoral candidate Karen Williams embarked on computer modeling research to find out about the Earth’s changes after the melting of the Laurentide ice sheet, which once covered Canada and a large part ...

Enough landmines are buried underground worldwide to circle Earth twice at the equator, but the identification and removal of these explosives is costly and time-consuming. New research could help ...

Bats navigate effectively using echolocation and memory. This study shows how they use past experiences to map their ...