Research by the US Geological Survey may begin to help public well water managers identify how vulnerable their systems are to contamination, but the study that USGS released on Aug. 5 identified more ...

The new site is part of a two-year effort to make the U.S. Geological Survey's online resources more accessible and user-friendly. The U.S. Geological Survey launched a beta version of its new website ...

Analysis of US Geological Survey testing of water samples taken from one of two US Environmental Protection Agency monitoring wells at Pavillion, Wyo., raises questions about the how EPA constructed ...

The U.S. Geological Survey has taken over operations of the Landsat 7 imaging satellite from NASA, consolidating a program that provides researchers with detailed pictures of Earth and other data.

Across the country, the data collected at stream gauges managed by the U.S. Geological Survey are used to implement drought measures when streamflows are low, alert local authorities of floods, help ...

A partial shutdown of the US Government has affected approximately 25 percent of the federal government and some 800,000 employees. With the Government shutdown comes concern over the country’s ...

Donald Trump has just agreed to a solution to the US government shutdown, currently the longest in history at 35 days. The new agreement would keep the government open for a further three weeks before ...

Look out, South Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri. Although California is well known for earthquakes, new federal government maps extend the high-risk zones for temblors across much more of the country ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco heard oral arguments last week in an ongoing legal battle between the Interior Department and 14 scientists who claim they were fired ...