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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Some gulls in southcentral Alaska are carriers of antibiotic resistant strains of E. coli, according to a new study co-authored by...

Mercury contamination is widespread, at various levels across western North America in air, soil, sediment, plants, fish and wildlife.

A team of USGS scientists spent 10 days in the wilderness, exploring one of the fastest-moving faults in America

Information will aid marine and conservation planning

“The scenarios predicted by our models are encouraging in that there are clear actions that humans can take to improve the chances that healthy polar...

The U.S. Geological Survey has produced a new compilation of landscape-scale sediment and soil geochemical data for Alaska. This was last completed...

“These results suggest that waterfowl populations in the western boreal forest are resilient to forest fires and that current policies of limited fire...

You really are what you eat. That’s the taking-off point for a new polar bear study, conducted by U.S. Geological Survey researchers with an assist...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The U.S. Geological Survey released additional evidence that western Alaska remains a hot spot for avian influenza to enter North...

Minutes after the 1964 magnitude-9.2 Great Alaska Earthquake began shaking, a series of tsunami waves swept through the village of Chenega in Prince...