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USGS scientists, working with scientists and resource managers from multiple U.S. Department of Interior Bureaus and other government agencies, have...

RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will invest more than $1 million in a new airborne geophysical survey to map critical mineral...

Editor: In the public interest and in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, the USGS is announcing this low-level airborne...

At 4:10 p.m. local time on January 1, 2024, the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center detected a magnitude 7.5 earthquake at...

Reporters: Do you want to accompany a U.S. Geological Survey crew as they document how high the flood waters reached in Augusta, Maine, and...

RESTON, Va. — The USGS recently release an update to the National Produced Waters Geochemical Database, a database of chemical information for oil and...

High phosphorus levels can drive overgrowth of algae and plants, depleting oxygen and causing harmful algal blooms, fish mortality and habitat loss. A...

On December 7, 2023 from 2–4pm EST, USGS hosted a live, virtual Honor Awards Ceremony. Watch video of event including closed captions and transcripts...

Just as storytelling is integral to the preservation of traditions of Indigenous culture, so is the importance of sharing of Earth observation data to...