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Virginia Beach residents and local emergency managers have a new tool to monitor storm tides and flooding this hurricane season with the installation...

A new streamgage recently installed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the city of Linton, Indiana, will provide continuous, real-time streamflow and...

Recent scientific work has confirmed the source, composition and origin of methane seeps on the Atlantic Ocean seafloor, discovered in 2012, where...

Water quality in the Harlem River in New York has improved greatly since passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, though there are still instances...

When a moving barge encounters small fish in the Illinois Waterway there is a possibility that the fish will become trapped in the gap between barges...

Water quality in the Harlem River in New York has improved greatly since passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, though there are still instances...

Hypoxic zone size affected by low river flow and nutrient loading

Outlook incorporates multiple hypoxia models for the second year

This is the second-largest assessment of potential shale & tight gas resources that the USGS has ever conducted.