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USGS scientists, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Alaska Fairbanks, have mapped belowground...

A new, interactive tool can help managers make critical water-quality decisions in the Red River Basin of the United States and Canada.

U.S. Geological Survey field crews are measuring record flooding in parts of eastern Texas following intense rainfall. Rainfall amounts of 18 – 20...

Recent scientific work outlines the severe consequences the practice of bottom trawling has on loose sediment on the ocean floor.

Storm tides is the combination of storm surge, which is water that has been pushed by a storm, with the regularly occurring tides.

Much of the coast from Maine to Virginia is more likely to change than to simply drown in response to rising seas during the next 70 years or so...

The U.S. Geological Survey has created 20 new flood inundation maps that can help South Carolinians take steps to prevent or reduce future flood...

The U.S. Geological Survey has announced the first recipients of the 2016 partnership funding awards for the 3D Elevation Program.

This one has a lot of variance within the scientific community, but at its core, a reservoir is a place where fluids collect and concentrate.

Alder, aspen, birch, elm, maple and oak are some of the most popular trees in North America. But it might come as a surprise that aspen, with their...