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Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the release of new science and planning tools to support California’s continued leadership on actions to...

With the development of the Central Valley (CVP) and State Water (SWP) projects, the natural flow of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has been...

The Cosumnes River watershed has seasonal, non-point source hotspots for total mercury and methylmercury production, which discharge to the Sacramento...

California's landscape is prone to drought and warmer climates. The recent drought lasted five years (2011 – early 2017), bringing with it many...

Lake Tahoe currently attracts almost 3 million visitors a year. After the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, it became a major tourist attraction...

A new U.S. Geological Survey-led study suggests that earthquake-related deformation just below the Earth's surface can be quite different from how it...

Electromagnectic surveying is helping the California Water Science Center to study geology and groundwater throught California.

USGS scientists collect samples to test for a range of water-quality constituents, especially mercury levels, in the Cache Creek Settling Basin.

May marks the annual observance of American Wetlands Month, a month dedicated to celebrating one of nature’s most productive ecosystems.

Although no one can reliably predict earthquakes, today’s technology is advanced enough to rapidly detect seismic waves as an earthquake begins...