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On June 18, 2015 in Canberra, Australia, the U.S. Geological Survey and Geoscience Australia signed a comprehensive new partnership to maximize land...

U.S. Geological Survey field crews are measuring flooding on rivers and streams across northern Indiana today.

The use of sophisticated DNA sequencing by a team of scientists has determined that Hawaii's state land mammal, the Hawaiian hoary bat, migrated to...

Bees are nearly ubiquitous, occurring on every continent except Antarctica. Wherever there are insect-pollinated flowering plants — forest, farms...

Fifty years ago on June 16, a devastating flood swept through the South Platte River Basin of the Front Range and Eastern Plains of Colorado, killing...

Dr. Kyle W. Blasch begins work today as the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Idaho Water Science Center, headquartered in Boise.

A new GPS survey of Mount McKinley, the highest point in North America, will update the commonly accepted elevation of McKinley’s peak, 20,320 ft. The...

The central United States has undergone a dramatic increase in seismicity over the past 6 years. From 1973-2008, there was an average of 24...

Are you a developer, firm, or organization using mobile or web applications to enable your users? The USGS has publicly available geospatial services...

North America may have once been attached to Australia, according to research just published in Lithosphere and spearheaded by U.S. Geological Survey...