Added: Monday, October 1st, 2012
By: Alex Demas, Juliette Wilson, and Catherine Puckett
Trees Face Rising Drought Stress and Mortality as Climate Warms. Read more
Added: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
By: Catherine Puckett cpuckett@usgs.gov & Hannah Hamilton hhamilton@usgs.gov
Saltmarshes may slow the rate of climate change. Read more
Added: Thursday, September 20th, 2012
By Kathy Wesenberg, Robert Dusek, Erik Hofmeister, and Cassandra Ladino
USGS vigilant for West Nile virus in wildlife through surveillance, research, and mapping.
Added: Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
By: Gail Moede Rogall (gmrogall@usgs.gov), Hon Ip (hip@usgs.gov), and Kathy Wesenberg (kwesenberg@usgs.gov)
USGS and its partners are investigating the unusual deaths of New England harbor seals. Read more
Added: Thursday, July 26th, 2012
By: Kara Capelli, Diane Noserale, and Scott Phillips
USGS scientists look to see if water quality is improving. Read more
Added: Monday, July 16th, 2012
By: Kara Capelli, Jenn LaVista, Jess Robertson
The majority of the nation is facing dry conditions; in most areas drought conditions are expected to persist or intensify. Read more
Added: Monday, July 2nd, 2012
By: Kara Capelli and Heidi Koontz
Read more
Added: Friday, June 22nd, 2012
By: Catherine Puckett
After dams tumble down, what happens next? Click here to find out! Read more
Added: Thursday, June 7th, 2012
Catherine Puckett, cpuckett@usgs.gov
Maximizing alternative energy’s potential – how science can help grow the nation’s energy portfolio. Read more
Added: Monday, June 4th, 2012
By: David Hebert, dhebert@usgs.gov
Please comment on the USGS’ draft science strategies! Read more
Added: Thursday, May 17th, 2012
By: Kara Capelli
USGS Details how climate change could affect water availability in 14 U.S. Basins. Read more
Added: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
By Jason Dunham
Western stream temperatures are not warming at the same rate as air temperature.Read more
Added: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
By: By Mark Feldman (Paul Laustsen - Point of Contact)
Long polar bear swims provide tantalizing clues.Read more
Added: Friday, April 13th, 2012
By Barbara Wilcox
The larger and more aggressive Eastern species thrives in a threatened species’ forest habitat.
Added: Thursday, April 5th, 2012
By Cheryl O'Brien
While on your spring hike, beware of hitchhiking ticks—they may carry Lyme Disease.
Added: Thursday, April 5th, 2012
By Hannah Hamilton and Gail Moede Rogall
For the first time since its discovery, White-nose syndrome has been found in the West.
Added: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
By Cheryl O'Brien
The family picnic: food and fun...until unwanted guests show up! Learn what you can do to prevent West Nile virus from infecting your loved ones.
Added: Monday, April 2nd, 2012
by Catherine Puckett
Timing is everything! Consider helping track changes in spring’s arrival
Added: Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
By Kara Capelli
Flood Safety Awareness Week is March. 12-16. What can you do to prepare?
Added: Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
By Kara Capelli and Kevin Dennehy
National Groundwater Awareness Week is Mar. 11-17, 2012. See how USGS science is connecting groundwater and surface water.
Added: Friday, March 9th, 2012
By Christina Nyquist
Since Japan’s March 11, 2011, Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami, scientists at the USGS have learned much to help better prepare for a large earthquake in the United States.
Added: Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
By Catherine Puckett
Five USGS employees honored with Distinguished Service Awards for their service to the nation
Added: Monday, March 5th, 2012
By Hannah Hamilton & Catherine Puckett
It’s National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Did you know invasive species cost our country more than 100 billion dollars each year? Get to know America’s ten top invaders this week.
Added: Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
By Hannah Hamilton and Catherine Puckett
It’s National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Did you know invasive species cost our country more than 100 billion dollars each year? Get to know America’s ten top invaders this week.
Added: Monday, February 27th, 2012
By Hannah Hamilton & Catherine Puckett
It’s National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Did you know invasive species cost our country more than 100 billion dollars each year? Get to know America’s ten top invaders this week.
Added: Monday, February 13th, 2012
The proposed USGS budget reflects research priorities to respond to nationally relevant issues, including water quantity and quality, ecosystem restoration, hydraulic fracturing, natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes, and support for the National Ocean Policy, and has a large R&D component.
Added: Monday, February 6th, 2012
Melanie Gade, Catherine Puckett
Mid-sized mammals in Everglades National Park are getting a big squeeze from invasive Burmese pythons, according to a USGS co-authored study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Added: Friday, October 28th, 2011
By Marisa Lubeck
Bat populations, which provide valuable insect control, are declining at an alarming rate due to white-nose syndrome. Scientists have definitively identified the cause of this deadly syndrome.
Added: Thursday, October 13th, 2011
By John B. French, Jr.
Two adolescent cranes, raised by humans and reintroduced into the wild, were shot and killed. Sadly, they are not the first. How many killed this year? How many are left?
Added: Friday, October 7th, 2011
By Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
By 1936, devastating losses of wildlife populations were threatening the Nation’s natural resource heritage. America's first wildlife research center
Added: Monday, September 19th, 2011
As the team of responders struggled to end the worst oil spill in our Nation’s history, USGS scientist Paul Hsieh provided the critical scientific information needed to make a crucial decision.
Added: Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
The movie Contagion dramatizes the scenario of a global pandemic that begins with the spread of a disease from animals to humans. What are real-life experts doing to prevent a pandemic that originates with wildlife?
Added: Saturday, September 10th, 2011
After years of planning, the Department of the Interior has begun removing two dams on the Elwha River in Washington. But how will the removal of these dams impact the river’s sediments, waters, and fish?
Added: Friday, September 9th, 2011
As a nation, we use more than 75 billion gallons of groundwater each day. September 13 is the National Groundwater Association’s “Protect Your Groundwater Day.” What we can do to ensure we continue to have enough of it?
Added: Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Secretive and rare stream-dwelling amphibians are difficult to find and study. Scientists at the US Geological Survey and University of Idaho have developed a way to detect free-floating DNA from amphibians in fast-moving stream water.
Added: Friday, August 12th, 2011
Within the rivers, streams, and lakes of North America live over 200 species of freshwater mussels that share an amazing life history. Join us in Reston, VA to explore the fascinating reproductive biology and ecological role of one of nature’s most sophisticated fishermen.
Added: Monday, August 8th, 2011
USGS scientists are working to characterize the contaminants and habitats for a number of aquatic species along the lower Columbia River.
Added: Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Forests play a significant role in removing carbon from the atmosphere by absorbing one-third of carbon emissions annually. This is according to a new U.S. Forest Service study conducted in collaboration with USGS scientists.
Added: Thursday, July 14th, 2011
New USGS research shows that rice could become adapted to climate change and some catastrophic events by colonizing its seeds or plants with the spores of tiny naturally occurring fungi. The DNA of the rice plant itself is not changed; instead, researchers are re-creating what normally happens in nature.
Added: Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
A new study supports the ecological reliance of red knots on horseshoe crabs. The well-being of red knots, a declining shorebird species, is directly tied to the abundance of nutrient-rich eggs spawned by horseshoe crabs.
Added: Thursday, June 30th, 2011
USGS crews continue to measure streamflow and collect water quality and sediment samples in the Ohio and Mississippi River basins using state-of-art instruments.
Added: Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Native Bees are Selective About Where They Live and Eat -- It's National Pollinator Week, and here's groundbreaking research about the world of our native bees.
Added: Monday, March 28th, 2011
As hurricane season starts, researchers are modeling potential changes to
coastal environments to identify communities vulnerable to extreme erosion during storms. Data collected before and after storm landfall are used to verify past forecasts and improve future predictions.
Added: Monday, March 28th, 2011
Follow the Pacific Nearshore Project as researchers from the USGS, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and other institutions sail Alaskan waters to study sea otters and investigate coastal health.
Added: Monday, March 28th, 2011
USGS science supports management, conservation, and restoration of imperiled, at-risk, and endangered species.
Added: Monday, March 28th, 2011
New USGS research shows that certain lichens can break down the infectious proteins responsible for chronic wasting disease, a troubling neurological disease fatal to wild deer and elk and spreading throughout the United States and Canada.
Added: Monday, March 28th, 2011
It's time to celebrate the essential role wetlands play in giving us food and water; sheltering us from storms, floods, and coastal erosion; providing habitat for birds, fish, and other wildlife; and cleaning and storing water.
Added: Sunday, March 27th, 2011
In a unique application of data, this year's report provides the nation's first assessment of birds on public lands and waters.
Added: Sunday, March 27th, 2011
For reliable information about amphibians and the environmental factors that are important to their management and conservation, visit the new USGS Amphibian Monitoring and Research Initiative website.
Added: Saturday, March 26th, 2011
A new article explains the economic importance of insect-eating bats to U.S. agriculture and how white-nose syndrome and wind turbines threaten these valuable animals.
Added: Friday, March 11th, 2011
Using coral growth records and measurements of changing ocean chemistry from increased atmospheric CO2, USGS scientists are providing a foundation for predicting future impacts of ocean acidification and sea-level rise to coral reefs.
Added: Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Non-native lionfish are rapidly spreading along the U.S. Eastern seaboard, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean and have been preying on and competing with a wide range of native species.
Added: Thursday, March 10th, 2011
On Midway Island, Wisdom, a 60-year-old albatross, and her chick made it through the tsunami that resulted from the magnitude 9.0 earthquake off of Japan on March 11.
Added: Monday, February 28th, 2011
Please answer questions about USGS Ecosystems science.
Added: Friday, February 25th, 2011
Join us in learning about wildlife conservation research with Dr. Matthew Perry as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Major programs include global climate change studies, Chesapeake Bay studies, and wildlife conservation monitoring.
Added: Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Glen Canyon Dam High-Flow Experiments Provide Insights for Colorado River Management.
Added: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Demand for alternative energy sources leads scientists to consider
microbes as potential sources of power.
Added: Friday, January 28th, 2011
Human health, ecological health, and environmental health are closely connected. Join us to learn how USGS science contributes to our understanding of how such environmental factors affect health threats.
Added: Friday, January 28th, 2011
A new identification guide provides images and geographic distributions of diatoms, an important group of algae.
Added: Monday, January 10th, 2011
A new USGS video highlights five decades of photographic documented change in coral reef conditions in the Florida Keys.
Added: Monday, January 10th, 2011
The USGS National Wildlife Heath Center is working with state agencies in investigating the death of thousands of birds in Arkansas and Louisiana.
Added: Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Combining traditional ecological knowledge with empirical studies allows the the USGS, Tribal governments, and native organizations to increase their mutual understanding of the current health of Tribal lands and waters.
Added: Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Scientists have found that the fungus associated with white-nose syndrome in bats is unlike that of any known fungal skin pathogen in land mammals. It is extremely destructive to bats wing skin and may cause catastrophic imbalance in life-support processes.
Added: Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Sea-ice habitats essential to polar bears would likely respond positively should more curbs be placed on global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new modeling study published today in the journal, Nature.
Added: Monday, December 13th, 2010
Remotely triggered thermal-imagery cameras will be used in a new non-invasive way to study mange in wolves.
Added: Monday, December 13th, 2010
Landscape photos taken in the same place but many years apart reveal dramatic changes due to human and natural factors. The USGS Desert Laboratory Repeat Photography Collection, the largest archive of its kind
in the world, is 50 years old.
Added: Monday, December 13th, 2010
Decreasing pH and warming temperatures are changing ocean conditions and affecting coral and algal growth in South Florida. USGS scientists are conducting field measurements to learn more.
Added: Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Many coastal wetlands worldwide including several on the U.S. Atlantic coast may be more sensitive than previously thought to climate change and sea-level rise in the this century.
Added: Monday, November 29th, 2010
Efforts are underway to restore the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, which has been profoundly altered by development and water management practices. Join us on December 1st when Dr. Lynn Wingard shares USGS research that is helping restoration management agencies develop realistic and attainable restoration goals for the region.
Added: Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Eight specially trained whooping crane chicks hatched in May have now embarked on their first southward migration, with an ultralight airplane leading them. USGS researchers who hatched, raised, and trained the chicks at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, are eagerly following the cranes on their journey.
Added: Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Beak abnormalities, which make it difficult for birds to feed and clean themselves, are occurring in large numbers of Black-capped Chickadees, Northwestern Crows, and other species in the Pacific Northwest and may signal a growing environmental health problem.
Added: Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The USGS strongly supports the national celebration of Geography Awareness Week, November 14-20, and this year’s theme: Freshwater. The “where” factor of geography integrates USGS studies in many fields of science.
Added: Monday, November 15th, 2010
Two new tools that enable the public to report sick or dead wild animals could also lead to the detection and containment of wildlife disease outbreaks that may pose a health risk to people.
Added: Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
USGS scientists are investigating sea turtles and their habitats in Dry Tortugas National Park to provide insight that will be used as decision-support tools for managing coral ecosystems.
Added: Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Looking for information on natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data, and more? The USGS Education site provides great resources, including lessons, data, maps, and more, to support teaching, learning, K-12 education, and university-level inquiry and research.
Added: Monday, October 4th, 2010
The Chesapeake Bay has long been an R&R destination for DC residents. However, the watershed’s overpopulation contributes to its decline. Join us when USGS’s Scott Phillips and Peter Claggett discuss new science efforts applied to restoring the Nation's largest estuary on October 6th.
Added: Monday, September 27th, 2010
Nutrient sources in both agricultural and urban areas contribute to elevated nutrient concentrations in streams and groundwater across the Nation.
Added: Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
The timing of animal migration and reproduction, and observing when plants send out new leaves and bear fruit, is increasingly important in understanding how climate change affects biological and hydrologic systems. Photo credit Copyright C Brandon Cole.
Added: Monday, September 20th, 2010
The USGS has been researching manatees in Florida and the Caribbean for decades, but little is known about Cuban manatees. A USGS biologist recently visited Cuba with a team of international manatee experts working to conserve manatees around the Caribbean.
Added: Monday, September 13th, 2010
USGS scientists have discovered a new turtle species, the Pearl River map turtle, found only in the Pearl River in Louisiana and Mississippi. Sea-level changes between glacial and interglacial periods over 10,000 years ago isolated the map turtles, causing them to evolve into unique species.
Added: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
USGS scientists help land managers determine if fire is the appropriate strategy for controlling or enhancing specific plant species.
Added: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Did you know that contaminant-ridden dust from Africa may be harming coral reefs in the Caribbean? Scientists at the USGS are examining the air in Africa and in the Caribbean to determine what kinds of nutrients, microbes, and contaminants are traveling across the ocean.
Added: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities can be a significant source of pharmaceuticals in surface water. The USGS is working with water utilities to try to reduce the release of pharmaceuticals and other emerging contaminants to the environment.
Added: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
The USGS Science Strategy is a comprehensive report to critically examine the USGS's major science goals and priorities for the coming decade. The USGS is moving forward with these strategic science directions in response to the challenges that our Nation's future faces and for the stewards of our Federal lands.