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"Gravity Never Sleeps":  The USGS collaborates with community partners for a series of briefings on Capitol Hill to discuss national landslide hazards...

Visit our new USGS fire webpage to learn how USGS fire science is making a difference

In the underground rivers and flooded caves of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where Mayan lore described a fantastical underworld, scientists have found...

It may be hard to believe the legend that sailors long-at-sea once considered manatees to be mermaids. The manatee nickname – the “Sea Cow” – which...

Dark features previously proposed as evidence for significant liquid water flowing on Mars have now been identified as granular flows, where sand and...

Free and rapid imagery was provided through the USGS Hazard Data Distribution System.

A team of USGS scientists spent two weeks in the isolated Glacier Bay National Park, exploring one of the fastest-moving faults in North America.

Bringing together decades of research and mapping, the U.S. Geological Survey just released a geologic map and companion pamphlet featuring the...

Congratulations to the winners of the 5th Annual Best Student Geologic Map Competition, held at the Geological Society of America's recent Annual...

Two awardees have been presented with the 2017 William T. Pecora Award for achievements in Earth remote sensing.