geophysics

NEW YORK (TNS) — One of the many things to appreciate about our home planet is that buried in its layers of rock is a kind of time machine. These stra...

FLOOD: How might ice gorges and floodwaters have been cleared from the low-lying areas of Bradford in 1904, long before the Flood Control Project had ...

HARRISBURG — Following a meeting of the Commonwealth Drought Task Force this week, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is ma...

WASHINGTON CROSSING (TNS) — Flooding downpours were all but inevitable, forecasters were warning during a weekend so steamy that it seemed that the sa...

HARRISBURG — Following a meeting of the Commonwealth Drought Task Force this week, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will mainta...

It’s tough to think about a drought when it’s raining. However, drought expert Sylvia Reeves explained, “There is a lot more to drought than the surfa...

Multiple residents on Derrick Road experienced flooding issues on June 3, some even experiencing property damage. Many blamed the flooding on the inst...

COUDERSPORT — Potter County will hold a public meeting on Aug. 30 to gather public input for its countywide hazard mitigation action plan. The meeting...

A combination of rain, warm temperatures and melting ice caused a flash flood Friday in McKean County. According to Chief Dan Burkhouse of the Bradfor...

Many people are actively worried about global warming. And it frustrates them that skeptics and “deniers” refuse to acknowledge the “science” of such ...

The hole in the Earth’s ozone layer that formed over the Antarctica this September was about 20 percent smaller than last year, scientists say. Early ...