Multiple blazes are active throughout the country, as dry weather and human interference have caused flames to spark.

high-resolution national elevation data from the USGS 3D Elevation Program, and advanced computing to build a comprehensive landslide susceptibility model. The resulting map of the contiguous U.S., ...

A chilling Cold War-era nuclear map shows how 75% of the US population could be wiped out in the hardest-hit areas of a ...

U.S. Congress created the agency to “classify the public lands and examine the geological structure, mineral resources and ...

We passed a trail map tacked to a tree with a memorial card ... debris could fill the swamp and create dry land. Because of its geological and biological importance, Ell Pond is the only National ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

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According to estimates from a new USGS predictive model, exposure to certain PFAS chemicals may pose health risks. An ...

Director of the USGS National Innovation Center told Reuters. Stock said that Sceye's platform can continuously collect crucial highly detailed data about environmental events like wildfires ...

Officials said the earthquake occurred at a depth of around 9.2 km just before midnight Wednesday night, at around 11:59 p.m. The USGS website has a map of the area that could have felt shaking ...

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