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The future of many coasts is tied to the delivery of land-based sediment. The natural supply of sediment to coasts from adjacent rivers and watersheds...

A new report from the White House offers federal recommendations for supporting nature-based solutions to fight climate change, citing USGS coral reef...

Most coral reefs around the world are declining due to a myriad of external stressors, including climate change impacts such as rising sea-surface...

A recently completed series of data publications led by the U.S. Geological Survey represents the first time the fault has been mapped using...

A new commentary by USGS scientists and collaborators looks at the current state of science that measures landscape responses to modern climate change...

Classifying imagery based on identifiable pixels—labeling pixels of a certain color “water” and others as “land”, for example—is known as image...

USGS provides critical earth science to a broad cross-section of the U.S., from the individual to state and federal resource managers to congressional...

A team of researchers has analyzed fossil evidence around the world and found that globalization—the massive expansion of worldwide trade and commerce...

To better understand the geophysical characteristics and seismic history of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, USGS researchers conduct fieldwork at sea to...

Rising sea levels, increasingly frequent and severe flooding, and coastal erosion are just a few of the climate-fueled threats to coastal...