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Boating north through Whitewater Bay in Florida's Everglades National Park, USGS scientists noticed a thin plume of smoke rising midway along Cape...

A new study challenges the established principle that water quality in bays and estuaries is driven primarily by human-caused changes in the...

The rapid spread of lionfishes along the U.S. eastern seaboard, Gulf of America, and Caribbean is the first documented case of a nonnative marine fish...

List of recent USGS publications and data releases based on coastal and marine research.

Editor's note: During the Pacific Nearshore Project 2011 Alaska Expedition, researchers shared stories about their shipboard life through journal...

Science experts from various agencies and universities have compiled a "state of the science" summary of information on the impacts of armoring on...

Palmyra faces challenges from past habitat impacts and present concerns about invasive species and sea-level rise.

For five decades, USGS geologist Gene Shinn (retired) has chronicled changing conditions at seven coral reef sites in the Florida Keys, creating an...

This gull species, which is native to California, has left an interesting history in its wake. Normally breeding in inland areas like Mono Lake...