You may want to thoroughly wash all of your grains and rice as officials warn that a common pesticide used by farmers may ...

D has been used as a pesticide since the 1940s, and gained notoriety as a component of Agent Orange, used by U.S. forces in ...

Scientists believe Michigan may be an abundant source of what could become the next big thing in carbon-free energy.

Geologists are putting their skills to the test studying hidden threats that lie beneath the feet of thousands of Kansas ...

Kansas City ranked high for water hardness among U.S cities, says U.S. Geological Survey. See the full list and how to spot signs of hard water in a home.

A 2024 study on the National Land Cover Database (which is based on Landsat observations) has found that tornado damage to forests in the southeastern U.S. is on the rise, despite a slight decrease in ...

Kansas’s alluvial aquifers, which are located next to rivers and streams, have also seen a decline largely due to irrigation. Rex Buchanan, former director of the Kansas Geological Survey, said ...

The Kansas Geological Survey earlier this month completed its annual campaign to measure the Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies the western one-third of the state with water.

The Kansas Geological Survey's library of drill cores, which currently includes over 73,000 boxes of rocks, is expanding to enhance its capabilities for analyzi ...

A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey will be in western Kansas to start measuring groundwater levels the first week of January 2025.

TOPEKA — Expansion of the Kansas Geological Survey’s drill core library will support analysis of oil and gas reservoir properties, hydrogen and carbon storage and identification of critical minerals.