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Two awardees have been presented with the 2017 William T. Pecora Award for achievements in Earth remote sensing. 

Estimates of Potential Uranium in the Southern High Plains Could Equal Just Under One Year of U.S. Needs.

India has the highest net cropland area while South Asia and Europe are considered agricultural capitals of the world.

The USGS has up-to-date details on the November 12, 2017 event.

Six years ago, veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan had trouble breathing normally. The list of potential causes that soldiers were exposed to...

Coastal communities count on beaches for recreation and for protection from large waves, but beaches are vulnerable to threats such as erosion by...

U.S. Geological Survey field crews in Puerto Rico are rapidly repairing the damage wrought by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, tracking the scope of storm...

Improvements to the quality and usability of Landsat satellite data have been made with the release of a new USGS product called Landsat Analysis...

Monitoring our changing planet is critical to supporting a world population expected to reach eight billion by 2025. Observing the Earth from space...

As part of an ongoing effort to improve performance and reliability for the suite of USGS Hydrography web-based map services, the USGS is migrating...