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Two snapshots from Landsat show the extent of a landslide in an Alaska National Park.

A team of USGS scientists spent 10 days in the wilderness, exploring one of the fastest-moving faults in America

Information relating to fish biology, locations and effects of climate change will help guide future research and management decisions

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Twenty middle-school girls from Washington and Oregon are participating in the second annual “GeoGirls” outdoor volcano science program...

Information will aid marine and conservation planning

A new geologic map of the Long Valley Caldera, Mammoth Mountain, and the Middle Fork canyon of the San Joaquin River including Devils Postpile...

Alaska is a major producer of base and precious metals and has a high potential for additional undiscovered mineral resources. However, discovery is...

“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...

The U.S. Geological Survey has produced a new compilation of landscape-scale sediment and soil geochemical data for Alaska. This was last completed...

“These results suggest that waterfowl populations in the western boreal forest are resilient to forest fires and that current policies of limited fire...