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Whether you call them meteors, shooting or falling stars, once they've...

Three earthquakes in the Monterey Bay Area, occurring in 1838, 1890 and 1906, happened without a doubt on the San Andreas Fault, according to a new paper by a Portland State University researcher. The paper, “New Insights into Paleoseismic Age Models on the Northern San Andreas Fault:...

Situated on the eastern flank of the Ring of Fire, a belt of volcanic...

From the impacts of the Eagle Creek fire on watersheds in the Columbia River...

As the wildfires and hotter summers become more frequent in the Northwest, experts from across a range of sectors including academia, state and federal agencies, tribal communities and municipal governments throughout the region gathered...

Researchers from Portland State University and the Oregon Department of Geology...

Antarctica's sandy polar desert, the McMurdo Dry Valleys, has undergone changes over the past decade and the recent discovery of thawing permafrost, thinning glaciers and melting ground ice by a Portland State University-led research team are signs that rapid and widespread change could be...

A new study by scientists at Portland State University and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder has found that the effects of climate change, which are apparent in other parts of the Antarctic continent, are not yet observed for glaciers in the...

Portland State University researchers and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have publically released high-resolution maps of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a globally unique Antarctic polar desert. The PSU scientists led a team of researchers supported by the NSF to map the area using LIDAR...