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

Additional tags to hunt and harvest deer were announced after a fatal disease was confirmed in parts of south-central and ...

More than two hundred years ago, a man called William Smith did something extraordinary. He became the first person to map the geology of an entire nation. Not only was this scientifically significant ...

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New evidence collected by China's Zhurong rover makes a compelling case for the existence of ancient oceans on Mars.

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Imagine that a massive ice sheet covered Canada and oozed down over a large part of the northern United States, like icing ...

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

Dr. Ben Mirus and Dr. Francis Rengers with the U.S. Geological Survey have been using laser scans and GPS cameras, accurate down to one inch, to map out landslides caused by Helene. They hope ...

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Chinese rover finds geological signs suggesting ancient Martian ocean New evidence supports long-debated theory of water on ...

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