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Budget Focuses on Bringing Science, Facilities, and Infrastructure into the 21st Century

Budget Focuses on Bringing Science, Facilities, and Infrastructure into the 21st Century

2020 Report Highlights the Importance of Mining Minerals for U.S. Economy and National Security

A new landslide guidebook released February 5 is now available for Puerto Rico residents to learn more about the landslide hazards that can impact the...

Links to forecasts and scenerios (below) will continue to be updated, however, text in this story will not be updated unless there is significant...

On January 28, 2020, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea, roughly equidistant from the coasts of Jamaica, Cuba and the Cayman...

The USGS and its research partners in India and Japan have reported on one of the most extensive data sets ever collected on the occurrence of natural...

USGS continues its estimates of technically recoverable oil and gas in Alaska's North Slope.

Research by the USGS and Dickinson College reveals why scientists fail to detect brown treesnakes at low densities

A sequence of earthquakes in southwest Puerto Rico continues to affect people living there, with the largest recent aftershock a magnitude 5.2 on Jan...