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USGS model simulations suggest that Walker Lake will rise by as much as 15 to 18 feet this year, the most in a single year in recorded history.

We've got a library full of spectral signatures, like a police fingerprint library for minerals and other substances!

As part of an ongoing effort to improve the suite of hydrography web-based map services, the USGS will separate the services for the National...

In the first ecosystem-wide study of changing sea depths at five large coral reef tracts in Florida, the Caribbean and Hawai’i, U.S. Geological Survey...

A new tool, which predicted the recent, rapid growth and continued spread of chronic wasting disease in deer, can help forecast and manage other...

While not a Ferris wheel, this EarthWord is just as magnetic an attraction...

For more than two decades, researchers, geologists, and investors had no idea they were standing above tremendous wealth. Thousands of feet deep...

Meet USGS' newest laboratory!

While freshwater ecosystems cover only a small amount of the land surface in Alaska, they transport and emit a significant amount of carbon, according...

In 2016, these five states led the pack in mineral production, accounting for about one third of the total mineral production value for the entire...