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USGS Announces Elevation and Hydrography Data Acquisition Partnership Awards, as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda

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USGS seeks geologic data preservation proposals from state geological surveys as part of the President’s Investing in America agenda

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USGS Releases Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024, finds US Mineral Production Jumped 4 billion to exceed 105 billion dollars

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USGS Awards Competitive Remote Sensing Grant to AmericaView

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DARPA Announces Winners of Artificial Intelligence Competition to Aid Critical Minerals Assessments

Winning solutions will help the USGS automate key steps in evaluating geologic maps of mineral deposits that are vital to the U.S. Economy

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USGS Releases Spanish Version of National Water Dashboard

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USGS Seeks National Ground-Water Monitoring Network Proposals

USGS Seeks National Ground-Water Monitoring Network Proposals

The U.S. Geological Survey will award up to $2 million in cooperative agreements to support participation in the National Ground-Water Monitoring...
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Understanding how Pharmaceuticals in the Environment Affect Fish

Understanding how Pharmaceuticals in the Environment Affect Fish

Fish health may be affected by pharmaceuticals in treated wastewater released into streams and other water bodies, according to a recent laboratory...
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Storage and Treatment of Liquid Waste from Landfills Doesn’t Remove All Contaminants, Including Pharmaceuticals

Storage and Treatment of Liquid Waste from Landfills Doesn’t Remove All Contaminants, Including Pharmaceuticals

New research from the U.S. Geological Survey details that even after the storage and/or treatment of leachate – liquid waste that moves through or...
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Restoration Handbook for Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystems, Part 1 - Understanding and Applying Restoration

Restoration Handbook for Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystems, Part 1 - Understanding and Applying Restoration

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Heightened interest in advancing sage-grouse conservation has increased the importance of sagebrush-steppe restoration to recover or...
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Grass Carp Eggs Compromised by Settling on Streambeds

Grass Carp Eggs Compromised by Settling on Streambeds

Grass carp egg survival is compromised when they settle on streambeds and are potentially covered by sediments, according to a new study by the U.S...

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Invasive Silver Carp Respond Strongly to Sound

Invasive Silver Carp Respond Strongly to Sound

Silver carp, a species of invasive Asian carp, demonstrated a strong aversion to certain noises during a recent study on the potential use of sound...
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Fire Patterns in the Range of the Greater Sage-Grouse, 1984-2013

Fire Patterns in the Range of the Greater Sage-Grouse, 1984-2013

OAKHURST, Calif. -- Overall fire threats to greater sage-grouse habitat are much higher in the western part of the species’ range than in the eastern...
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Sage-grouse Priority Areas Function as an Interdependent Network

Sage-grouse Priority Areas Function as an Interdependent Network

BOISE, Idaho — The network of greater sage-grouse priority areas is a highly centralized system of conservation reserves. The largest priority areas...
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What Happened to Early Mars’ Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory

What Happened to Early Mars’ Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory

A new analysis of the largest known deposit of carbonate minerals on Mars helps limit the range of possible answers about how and why Mars changed...
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USGS Engravings: Update on Public Sales

USGS Engravings: Update on Public Sales

From the 1880s to the 1950s, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) engraved information from its surveys on metal plates (usually copper) as part of a...
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Trends in River Pesticide Levels Echo Pesticide Use

Trends in River Pesticide Levels Echo Pesticide Use

Trends in pesticide concentrations in 38 major rivers in the U.S. during 1992-2010 reflect large-scale trends in pesticide use and regulatory changes...
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Ecologists Roll a Century’s Work on Food-webs into a Single Model

Ecologists Roll a Century’s Work on Food-webs into a Single Model

In a paper released today in Science, a new model presents a common mathematical structure that underlies the full range of feeding strategies of...
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