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Two BGSU students and their professor will spend much of spring semester in Antarctica studying undersea volcanoes.

Sonoma State students and faculty are reeling over shocking budget cuts. Those in impacted majors aren’t taking these losses ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

In early August, blue crab fans took over Lewes, Delaware, for the Crab Pot Jamboree, where the biggest catch was learning how to avoid turning your crab pot into an underwater lost-and-found.

Yellowstone Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why — the dynamic landscape contains a ...

Small class sizes and close relationships with faculty allow many opportunities to work and study in the lab and in the field . The University of Dayton Department of Geology and Environmental ...

The team reported that during the study period, 1,011 deaths occurred, meaning that the background rate of premature deaths was around one in seven people. However, the premature death rate appeared ...