A 7.0-magnitude earthquake jolted 79 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga, at 1:18 local time on Monday, the US Geological Survey said. T ...

A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support.

In the Pacific, Nauru isn’t the only country eyeing the new industry. Although many, such as Fiji and Palau, have called for a moratorium on mining, in Tonga and the Cook Islands Indigenous peoples ...

A map of the world 34 million years ago, showing hypothesized scenarios for the colonization of Fiji by Brachylophus ... Other co-authors of the paper are Robert Fisher of the U.S. Geological Survey ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) New geological data reveals that global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice age, with peaks exceeding 1 meter per century during the early Holocene. This ...

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The humble iguana may have have pulled off an epic migration millions of years ago, traveling from the coast of today’s Mexico to Fiji on rafts made of vegetation.

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with astronomer Hadrien Devillepoix of Curtin University and colleagues in Australia to ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands ... said study author Robert Fisher of the United States Geological Survey. Figuring out where these ...