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Citizen science — scientific work undertaken by members of the general public, usually in collaboration with scientific institutions — is a grassroots...

USGS explores the meaning behind Frederic Edwin Church's 1865 painting, “Aurora Borealis.”

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly referred to as bird flu, is making its way across North America.

Water quality can be substantially diminished for several years after wildfire in response to relatively common local thunderstorms, according to a...

Populations of bats diminished by white-nose syndrome (WNS), a disease of hibernating bats, are unlikely to return to healthy levels in the near...

Join millions of people participating in America’s PrepareAthon! on Sept. 30. This campaign encourages the nation to conduct drills, discussions and...

A Frankenword portmanteau of evaporation and transpiration that is used to account for all of the water that moves from the Earth’s surface to the...

A hepatitis B-like virus has been found for the first time in fish. A team of USGS researchers found the virus in white sucker from the Great Lakes...

When the next hurricane heads toward a coastal community in the United States, residents and emergency managers busily readying for the storm will...

Islands used by tropical seabirds are highly vulnerable to sea level rise according to a new study released today.