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The ground under your feet is like a great history book. Looking at it can reveal ancient stories that include dinosaurs, volcanic eruptions, and...

2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the May 22, 1915 explosive volcanic eruption of Lassen Peak in northern California. 

The USGS is joining people across the world to celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 2015. To help build environmental awareness, the USGS has outlined...

Small bees that don’t bother or sting us can remain unstudied despite their abundance. 

Wetlands across the U.S. and around the world act as a crucial link between land and water, providing a number of services such as removing excess...

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, 2015 at 06:11:26 UTC. Visit the USGS event page to learn more about this earthquake.

Once so cheap it was used for pennies, copper is now so valuable that pennies contain almost no copper and they still cost more than one cent to make...

Are you one in a million? The USGS is part of the millions participating on April 30 for America’s PrepareAthon! You should join too.

Along with many countries around the world, the United States faces two significant, and sometimes competing, challenges: (1) providing sustainable...

From the 1880s to the 1950s, the U. S. Geological Survey used engraved copper plates in the process of printing many thousands of topographic and ...