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2024 was another productive year for the Land Change Science Program in the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area! Below are some summaries and highlights of...

Midwest CASC-supported research shows that cooler-water fish are losing habitat faster than warmer-water species are gaining habitat, indicating that...

A shared initiative between the USGS Water Resources Mission Area and Ecosystems Mission Area to communicate key findings of USGS land change science...

Title:  Sixty-seven years and still digging! A brief history of the USGS Benchmark Glacier Project to kick off the International Year of Glaciers’...

USGS recently released 42 years (1981-2023) of scanned field notebooks from long-term research and monitoring in the Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky...

By Gustave Axelson, Photos by Sparky Stensaas

Living Bird Magazine, Winter 2025

After a 2019 study identified major losses to North American bird...

High-quality field data on wetlands are essential for managing these important environments, but wetlands are inherently difficult to study. USGS...

How scientists use “tree cookies” and “root cookies” to study ecosystems

A collaborative story with USGS and USFWS focused on the importance of reporting waterfowl bands.

Desert bighorn sheep depend on free-standing water for survival. The USGS supports the US Fish and Wildlife Service at Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife...