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Featuring lost museum specimens & watercolors...

This week's EarthWord, to quote Indiana Jones, belongs in a museum...

Reporters: Do you want to interview USGS scientists as they measure flooding? Please contact Shaun Wicklein at smwickle@usgs.gov or 804-399-9929. 

These interactive, mobile-friendly websites use maps of beach locations to indicate whether or not estimated bacteria levels exceed state safety...

A high-tech buoy that monitors water quality in real time was just installed in one of New England’s most popular lakes, where in the future it will...

Virginia Beach residents and local emergency managers have a new tool to monitor storm tides and flooding this hurricane season with the installation...

A new streamgage recently installed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the city of Linton, Indiana, will provide continuous, real-time streamflow and...

Featuring misplaced deer, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and a dishonest fur trader

More vital coastal storm-tide information needed to help guide storm response efforts following major storms is now available with the addition of...

Evaluating the predictions associated with climate change just became easier with the development of new statistical methods designed to assess the...