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In a recently published study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and USGS investigate how coral reefs affect shoreline...

In a warming climate, increased wildfire activity coupled with extreme rain events is causing significant erosion, leading to heightened sediment flow...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists compiled one year’s worth of soil and sediment erosion quantities occurring after large California wildfires...

New USGS research documents a 14,000-year history of seismic activity preserved in the sediments of Ozette Lake, a ~100-meter (328-foot) deep coastal...

On March 27, 1964 at 5:36 p.m. local time an earthquake of magnitude 9.2 occurred in the Prince William Sound region of Alaska, approximately 15.5...

Editor: In the public interest and in accordance with FAA regulations, the USGS is announcing this low-level airborne project. Your assistance in...

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A new study from the University of California, Santa Cruz, The Nature Conservancy, and USGS quantifies the social and economic benefits that coral...

GOLDEN, Col. — After nearly two decades of data collection, the first-ever nationwide survey of Earth’s electrical conductivity is available.