Driving across the state of Oregon takes a few hours, but on that drive, you can witness millions of years of geology unfold outside your car window. The spectacular snow-capped volcanoes of the ...

Boulder, CO, USA - This new Field Guide from The Geological Society of America features detailed, guided trips throughout the Pacific Northwest and surrounding areas. Use this guide to visit and learn ...

Multiple teams of earthquake researchers are looking in what may seem like an unlikely place to figure out how strongly the Pacific Northwest shook during great quakes in the past. They're poking ...

PORT TOWNSEND — In “Assembling the Pacific Northwest,” geology professor Ralph Dawes will take listeners back 200 million years, when the West Coast was located at Spokane, at the edge of the “craton” ...

For many people, the "King" Columbia River begins and ends with the Grand Coulee Dam, the iconic 1930s project that produces cheap hydroelectric power to fuel homes, heavy industry and harnesses water ...

A group of researchers have studied the history of drought in the Pacific Northwest during the last 6,000 years, a time that spans the mid-Holocene geological epoch to the present. The goal of the ...

The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries is warning that an incoming atmospheric river could cause landslides ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Fiona Ellsworth, a PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo, has been selected by the Department of Energy to conduct research at a national laboratory on how drought changes the ...

Two atmospheric rivers are expected to bring up to 10 inches of rain to parts of Oregon and Washington through Wednesday, prompting flood warnings and delays.