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New Screening Tool Protects Streams, Wetlands, and Residences From Landfill Risks

New Screening Tool Protects Streams, Wetlands, and Residences From Landfill Risks

A new screening tool to assess the potential risk posed by contaminated groundwater moving from landfills to nearby streams, wetlands and residences...
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Past Water Patterns Drive Present Wading Bird Numbers

Past Water Patterns Drive Present Wading Bird Numbers

Wading bird numbers in the Florida Everglades are driven by water patterns that play out over multiple years according to a new study by the U.S...
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Media Advisory: Accompany a USGS Field Crew as they Evaluate the Health of Washington Streams

Media Advisory: Accompany a USGS Field Crew as they Evaluate the Health of Washington Streams

How do urbanization and agriculture affect the health of Puget Low­lands and Willamette Valley streams? Journalists are invited to meet up with U.S...
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Some Coastal Plain Streams Influenced by Animal Feeding Operations

Some Coastal Plain Streams Influenced by Animal Feeding Operations

Animal feeding operations have measureable effects on stream water quality in many agricultural watersheds in the North Carolina Coastal Plain...

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Scientists Expect Slightly Below Average Chesapeake Bay ’Dead Zone’ this Summer

Scientists Expect Slightly Below Average Chesapeake Bay ’Dead Zone’ this Summer

Scientists are expecting that this year’s Chesapeake Bay hypoxic low-oxygen zone, also called the “dead zone,” will be approximately 1.37 cubic miles...

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USGS Measures Local Impacts of Tropical Depression Bill

USGS Measures Local Impacts of Tropical Depression Bill

Several U.S. Geological Survey field crews are measuring flooding in south-central Oklahoma due to heavy rainfall from the remnants of Tropical...

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Media Advisory: USGS Measures Flooding in Indiana

Media Advisory: USGS Measures Flooding in Indiana

U.S. Geological Survey field crews are measuring flooding on rivers and streams across northern Indiana today.
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Origins of the Hawaiian Hoary Bat Revealed

Origins of the Hawaiian Hoary Bat Revealed

The use of sophisticated DNA sequencing by a team of scientists has determined that Hawaii's state land mammal, the Hawaiian hoary bat, migrated to...

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Media Advisory: Remembering the 1965 South Platte River Flood and Moving Forth with Science for Safety

Media Advisory: Remembering the 1965 South Platte River Flood and Moving Forth with Science for Safety

Fifty years ago on June 16, a devastating flood swept through the South Platte River Basin of the Front Range and Eastern Plains of Colorado, killing...
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Blasch is New Director of USGS Idaho Water Science Center

Blasch is New Director of USGS Idaho Water Science Center

Dr. Kyle W. Blasch begins work today as the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Idaho Water Science Center, headquartered in Boise.

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Highest Peak in North America to be Surveyed

Highest Peak in North America to be Surveyed

A new GPS survey of Mount McKinley, the highest point in North America, will update the commonly accepted elevation of McKinley’s peak, 20,320 ft. The...
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Tectonic Model Shows North America May Once Have Been Linked to Australia or Antarctica

Tectonic Model Shows North America May Once Have Been Linked to Australia or Antarctica

North America may have once been attached to Australia, according to research just published in Lithosphere and spearheaded by U.S. Geological Survey...

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