National News Releases

During winter, wolves infected with mange can suffer a substantial amount of heat loss compared to those without the disease, according to a study by...

After more than three years of monitoring the towering granite cliffs of Yosemite National Park, scientists have new insights into a potentially...

On March 28, USGS scientists will release a report and the first-ever maps showing potential ground-shaking hazards from both human-induced and...

New research can help water managers along the Rio Grande make wise decisions about how to best use the flow of a river vital for drinking water...

RESTON, Va. — A new public-private research collaboration supported by the U.S. Geological Survey will tackle how to best cope with the increasing...

Long-term declines in the overwintering Eastern population of North American monarch butterflies are significantly increasing their likelihood of...

The U.S. Geological Survey and the European Space Agency (ESA) have established an innovative partnership to enable USGS storage and redistribution of...

USGS scientists, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Alaska Fairbanks, have mapped belowground...

Recent scientific work outlines the severe consequences the practice of bottom trawling has on loose sediment on the ocean floor.

Much of the coast from Maine to Virginia is more likely to change than to simply drown in response to rising seas during the next 70 years or so...