These fact sheets summarize research and investigations of the USGS, or provide details about particular activities.
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Hazards Hazards are unpreventable natural events that, by their nature, may expose our Nation's population to the risk of death or injury and may damage or destroy private property, societal infrastructure, and agricultural or other developed land. |
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Environment
Our nation's environment--the air, water, soil, and plant and animal life--is constantly changing as natural processes and human actions affect it. |
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Information Management Information management is both a strategy, driven by customer needs, and an infrastructure, shaped by technology, for handling and distributing information. Information management crosses disciplinary and administrative boundaries. |
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States This listing highlights USGS Programs in each state as well as other fact sheets dealing with the same geographic area. |
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