North Carolina was hit by two earthquakes recently, but you may not have felt them. Here's where they hit and more about quakes in the state.

When Darlene Kurkendall closes her eyes, she imagines the walls of her house falling away. She sees the people in her ...

Geologists found traces of an extraterrestrial impact from the Eocene epoch and a subsequent tsunami in the Paint Hill area ...

As the slope flattened out, the landslide blew open the channel and spread out, depositing a wall of uprooted trees just ...

The landslide behind my neighbor’s backyard doesn’t exist—not according to the New York State landslide map or Greene ...

Dr. J. Dan Pittillo died at age 86 after decades of contributing to natural science and environmental education in the Great ...

A team of researchers has employed modern mapping technology, including LiDAR, to try and finally find the lost escaped slave ...

Floods have always funneled down the canyons that surround their village, which is also named Ruidoso, but these were the worst ever recorded, at least in terms of damage (400 homes and buildings ...

WILMINGTON, Del. and CHARLOTTE, N.C. and LUSAKA, Zambia, Sept (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Terra Metals Inc., a Delaware-registered mineral ...

Outer Banks Voice The ever-shifting landscape of Jockey’s Ridge State Park took center stage on Sept. 13 during Dune Days at Jockey’s Ridge, a celebration hosted by Friends of ...

Tropical Storm Chantal parked itself over North Carolina in July and caused six deaths ... Before leaving NOAA, he helped launch flood-inundation maps that can predict where and how much each part of ...