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Thousands of photographs and videos of the seafloor and coastline—most areas never seen before—are now easily accessible online.

On February 26, 2015 at the USGS campus in Menlo Park, California, USGS research geologist Amy East gave a public lecture on the largest dam removal...

Climate changes during the 21st century are expected to alter the highest waves and strongest winds across U.S. and U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands.

The first phase of map and geospatial data publications, comprising six USGS Scientific Investigations Maps and associated data files centered on the...

Scientists worked together to examine and report the effects of removing two large dams from the Elwha River in Washington State, the largest dam...

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Acting USGS Director Suzette Kimball, and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee took part in a coastal climate change...

Sea stars are soft-bodied, colorful, mobile animals that hunt and feed on the ocean bottom, and since 2013, a mysterious disease has been killing them...

Department of the Interior scientists are generating and sharing critical information to aid the recovery of the areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy...

Late-summer water temperatures near the Florida Keys were warmer by nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last several decades compared to a century...

Natural methane leakage from the seafloor is far more widespread on the U.S. Atlantic margin than previously thought, according to a study by...