The U.S. Geological Survey and the Association of American State Geologists are pleased to announce the projects that have received funding for FY2020 under the USGS Mineral Resources Program’s Earth Mapping Resources Initiative, or Earth MRI.

Disturbances can hit Alberta’s lodgepole pine forests hard—including life under the soil, new University of Alberta research shows.

Mountains and butterflies are conceptualized as the ultimate juxtaposition—enduring and resolute versus fleeting and delicate.

A wetter-than-usual rainy season in Sudan has devastated communities across the country.

Satellites tracked smoke from wildfires as it spanned the continental United States and followed winds around two hurricanes.

This year’s Arctic sea ice cover shrank to the second-lowest extent since modern record keeping began in the late 1970s.

CU Boulder co-led study completes first global detection of nitrous acid in wildfire plumes

Diversity in many biological communities is a sign of an ecosystem in balance. When one species dominates, the entire system can go haywire.

Researchers have shown why intense, pure red colours in nature are mainly produced by pigments, instead of the structural colour that produces bright blue and green hues.

Global populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have declined by over two-thirds in less than half a century.