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New study offers insights to minimize projected climate impacts through proactive land-management activities

Climate change is already affecting inland fish across North America -- including some fish that are popular with anglers. Scientists are seeing a...

“The scenarios predicted by our models are encouraging in that there are clear actions that humans can take to improve the chances that healthy polar...

Resource managers can simulate how increased or decreased pumping from the aquifer system or changes in precipitation and climate would affect...

Reporters: Do you want to interview USGS scientists as they measure flooding? Please contact Shaun Wicklein at smwickle@usgs.gov or 804-399-9929. 

These interactive, mobile-friendly websites use maps of beach locations to indicate whether or not estimated bacteria levels exceed state safety...

A high-tech buoy that monitors water quality in real time was just installed in one of New England’s most popular lakes, where in the future it will...

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and Louisiana State University have identified a new genus and species of cavefish from Mexico, the Oaxaca...

USGS-USDA Modeling Research Show Up to 34% Reduction in Nitrogen from Agricultural Conservation Practices

“These results suggest that waterfowl populations in the western boreal forest are resilient to forest fires and that current policies of limited fire...