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Continental drift was the first attempt to explain why similar animal and plant fossils are found on different continents.

A small earthquake hit Peru at 1:40 p.m. local time. The earthquake was located about 15 miles off the coast of Callao, Peru and about 38 miles underground.

California state legislators on Tuesday told regulators and oil industry lobbyists they wanted more information about the use of acid to increase flows in wells in a technique that is used more often in the state than the controversial fracking method.

Two species of invasive Asian carp may be able to spawn in more Great Lakes tributaries than previously thought, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report on Tuesday.

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook buildings in Peru's capital on Tuesday, Peru's geological survey and Reuters witnesses said.

The uppermost reaches of the ocean could be rapidly scanned in groundbreaking high detail using acoustic techniques, researchers say.

Signs warning people of the possibility of the presence of harmful blue-green algae hang on the fence at the entrance to the swimming beach at Lake Macbride State Park.

BEIRUT: The Parliament's Justice and Administration Committee Monday approved the establishment of a new geology faculty at the Lebanese University.

The Cadillac Hotel in Seattle suffered severe damage in the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake.

Dozens of beachgoers were ordered out of the water and away from a northwest Indiana beach on Monday afternoon after some swimmers were coming out covered in a slick, slimy substance.

London: An investor consortium led by private equity firm Warburg Pincus on Monday agreed to provide USD 600 million in equity capital to Delonex Energy, the firm floated by former Cairn India chief executive Rahul Dhir.

Published in Geology , new research led by Monash University geologists has detected the first evidence that a passive margin in the Atlantic ocean is becoming active.

One of the things about the environmental Left that drives me most nuts is its resistance to reason and empirical fact.

Bellingham geologist Dave Tucker stands by a boulder about 100 yards upstream from the Ridley Creek trail ford on the middle fork Nooksack of the Nooksack River in this photo taken on Wednesday, June 5, 2013.

A moderate earthquake hit southern Mexico early Sunday, shaking buildings in the capital of Mexico City and sending frightened people into the streets.

Several mild earthquakes have given a shaking to parts of central Oklahoma but no damage or injuries have been reported.

Managua, Nicaragua's capital. A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit off the Nicaraguan coast about 50 miles from the capital on Saturday.

Two volcanoes are erupting on the Alaska Peninsula in the southwestern part of the state's mainland but the sputtering emissions of ash and lava at the different sites are unrelated, scientists said.

Mounting research suggests it could. It's prompting more cities, states and businesses to ban a common pavement sealant linked to higher cancer risks and contaminated soil.

The black sheen on newly sealed pavement -- whether your driveway, store parking lot or school playground -- is prompting a rising number of cities, states and businesses to ban a commonly used product.