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After initial reluctance, Campbell River backs Indigenous place names request
Following a closed-door meeting on Nov. 5, Campbell River’s city council has officially backed a request from First Nations ...
Maps: Strong Quakes Strike Near Cuba
The larger, 6.8-magnitude quake happened at 11:49 a.m. Cuba time about 24 miles south of Bartolomé Masó, Cuba, data from the ...
What That ‘Yellow Brick Road’ Under The Pacific Ocean Really Is
Ocean explorers spotted what looked like a "yellow brick road" to Atlantis in the Pacific Ocean in 2022. Here's what we know ...
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Volcano Watch: The art and science of geologic mapping
U.S. Congress created the agency to “classify the public lands and examine the geological structure, mineral resources and ...
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Chinese Rover Zhurong Uncovers New Compelling Evidence About Mars’s Ancient Past
New evidence collected by China's Zhurong rover makes a compelling case for the existence of ancient oceans on Mars.
How Satellites Are Mapping the Ocean Floor Without Getting Wet
Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...
NASA Scientists Find New Way To Scan Ocean Depths From Space
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 ...
Graveyards And Geology
Cemeteries not only provide a peaceful place to contemplate and commemorate the dead. They are also great places for studying ...
USGS to conduct low-level helicopter flights over the western Mojave Desert
A helicopter dangling a massive, hula hoop-shaped sensor will soon be carrying out low-level flights above the High Desert as ...
How Many Continents Are There? You May Not Like the Answers.
Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...
New Mexico Tech to expand groundwater monitoring, mapping with grant
Efforts to map groundwater, expand research and analyze water data are getting an injection with state and federal grants. The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology announced Tuesday its New ...