National News Releases

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The majority of streams in the Chesapeake Bay region are warming, and that increase appears to be driven largely by rising air...

A newly released interactive California Drought visualization website aims to provide the public with atlas-like, state-wide coverage of the drought...

The U.S. Geological Survey announced today that improved global topographic (elevation) data are now publicly available for North and South America...

As part of the continued US Topo maps revision and improvement cycle, the USGS will be including mountain bike trails to upcoming quadrangles on a...

Four years ago, a bulldozer operator turned over some bones during construction at Ziegler Reservoir near Snowmass Village, Colorado. Scientists from...

As freezing air swept into the Upper Midwest this past week, juvenile common loons took a cue from the weather and began their migrations to the warm...

The bear species nicknamed “teddy” more than a century ago that inspired the iconic stuffed toy still popular today will likely survive at least...

A pioneer in mapping global land cover change and the team behind the United States’ most advanced land surface mapping satellite have both been...

In a new polar bear study published today, scientists from the United States and Canada found that during the first decade of the 21st century, the...

Energy development in the Williston Basin oil production area of Montana and North Dakota, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks Formations, has...