A UC Santa Barbara geologist receives early career award from the Geological Society of America.

Crocker Nuclear Laboratory is now the prime contractor for both major federal fine particle air quality monitoring networks.

Phobos will likely slowly lose orbit and be shredded into pieces that will surround the red planet.

Predicting intensity, impact of this winter’s El Niño is complicated by unprecedented confluence of weather anomalies.

Breakup of Zachariae Isstrom could substantially raise sea levels around the globe.

A team of researchers in Antarctica is studying an ancient subduction zone to better understand the continent’s geologic evolution.

Researchers point to period much earlier than thought; also find evidence that the young planet was not dry and desolate.

San Jacinto, San Andreas interaction weakens earthquake shaking near them, study lead by UC Irvine finds.

UC Riverside and UC Berkeley among 14 universities receiving a $12 million National Science Foundation grant to address water challenges around the world.

U.S. Geological Survey awards $4 million grant to UC Berkeley and its research partners to ramp up ShakeAlert prototype.

UC Santa Barbara geologist James Kennett part of team that narrows date of cooling event most likely triggered by a cosmic impact.

Borehole seismometers will monitor faint tremors beneath the San Andreas Fault — part of UC Berkeley’s TremorScope project to determine the link between tremors and earthquakes.