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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...

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...

The thawing of the planet’s permafrost is replumbing arctic environments, creating several hydrologic consequences and possibly some opportunities...

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.