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EDDI is a drought index that can serve as an indicator of both rapidly evolving “flash” droughts (developing over a few weeks) and sustained droughts...

Scientists from the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey have reconstructed the recent migration history of ponderosa pine trees in...

Researchers are working to incorporate information from global climate models, process-based models, specific vegetation models and human activities...

A coalition of research institutions and fish and wildlife agencies this week unveiled a new online tool for use by local decision-makers...

The South Central Climate Science Center is the recipient of the DOI 2015 Environmental Achievement Award for "Climate Science and Partnerships-...

In recent years, wildfires have burned trees and homes to the ground across many states in the western U.S., but the ground itself has not gotten away...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that urban environments increase pathogen abundance in honey bees (Apis mellifera) and...

Toni Lyn Morelli, USGS Research Ecologist at the NE CSC, is working to tease apart mechanisms causing ecological changes in northeastern U.S...

While prolonged drought with widespread impacts on food and water supplies for people is among the oldest stories in human history, ecological drought...

A new USGS Open File Report summarizes the components of a number of U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) climate change vulnerability assessments.