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Atmospheric rivers have been in the news a lot over the past couple of months, from a late October atmospheric river that brought record-breaking...

Nearly 95% of samples collected from 206 locations over 40 years show uranium concentrations less than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

At the USGS, we talk about how our science is designed to help decision-makers, resource managers, and the public tackle the challenges of our day...

In collaboration with two USGS Water Science Centers and the University of Iowa, SLSB and NWQL scientists have recently published a new research...

A new study projects that a hot and dry future climate may lead to a 29% decline in Upper Colorado River Basin “baseflow” at the basin outlet by the...

USGS researchers frequently brave potentially haunted field sites and study spooky-looking creatures. Here’s a list of 13, right in time for Halloween...

U.S. Geological Survey scientists and partners will inject a harmless, bright red fluorescent dye into the Kansas River at Wamego, October 20 through...

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service partnered on a first-of-its-kind, nationwide harmful algal bloom, or HAB, field...

Right where the Colorado River flows into the mouth of the Grand Canyon, an inconspicuous 20-foot-high concrete tower rises from the riverbank.  

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