National Park officials urged caution after a toddler nearly fell off a 400-foot cliff while the family visited erupting ...

New Jersey is home to 600 of the nation's 500,000 abandoned mines, yet the danger they pose looms large in the state's north.

Because Florida was hit by two hurricanes weeks apart, experts say there is a lot of possible overlap when it comes to ...

The "warm blob" marine heat wave has resulted in the death of 4 million common murres in Alaska, with the population not ...

Nearly 30 years ago, unseasonably warm rains melted the snowpack in the Truckee, Carson, and Walker Rivers, bursting over ...

The National Park Service says the boy was just about a foot away from a fatal fall when his mother snatched him up ...

Real-time data from Axial Seamount off the Oregon coast is providing researchers with a good eruption forecasting test.

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake on Friday struck the Kuril Islands, off the coast of East Asia. The powerful quake occurred at ...

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake was reported on the Kuril Islands on Friday (December 27), according to the United States ...

A magnitude 3.0 earthquake rattled Contra Costa County shortly after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the United States ...