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Migratory birds provide ecosystem benefits that include pest control, pollination of plants and serve as food sources for other wildlife.  They are...

Great Lakes fish in the salmon family that rely on the fish “alewife” as part of their diet face a major obstacle in restoring naturally reproducing...

Cats can find curious ways to navigate the human environment. USGS Western Ecological Research Center ecologist Erin Boydston has been studying how...

Northern sea otters living off the coast of Washington state were infected with the same H1N1 flu virus that caused the world-wide pandemic in 2009...

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the Northeast Midwest Institute invite you to a briefing by the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment...

Like women researchers in other organizations and other scientific disciplines, women PI’s at USGS must manage unique career challenges, while...

The North Atlantic region is a newly discovered important pathway for avian influenza to move between Europe and North America, according to a U.S...

In a finding authors are coining an "unintentional rewilding," scientists identified a cave dung deposit as belonging to bighorn sheep that became...

Invasive Burmese pythons in South Florida are able to find their way home even when moved far away from their capture locations, a finding that has...

Invasive Burmese pythons in South Florida are able to find their way home even when moved far away from their capture locations, a finding that has...