Seven Michigan beaches are closed or under advisories due to high bacteria levels. Closures and advisories affect beaches in Oakland, Roscommon, Charlevoix, Allegan, Iosco, Macomb and Grand Traverse ...

River gauges, sirens and clear alerts can together help emergency managers anticipate flash floods and communicate ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...

Florida wants you to kill as many of the invasive Burmese pythons as you can during the 10-days contest in July. But you ...

Friday the 13th was a lucky day this June for the southwest Iowa city of Avoca, pop. 1,700. Restaurants along Main Street had ...

Of the yet-to-be-discovered oil on U.S. federal lands, about half is believed to be in Alaska, according to the new estimate.

How would you go about identifying usable land that suits your building tastes? [Scott Sexton] was specifically, looking for ...

Scientists discover arsenic in Girl Scout CookiesA new map has revealed a disturbing truth about drinking water in the ...

The Trump administration’s proposed budget bill would cut funding to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) by nearly 40%, ...

The Visual Water Leak Survey Guide is the first of these tools to be introduced by UTGIS and is free for the asking.

Supporting these efforts, the US Geological Survey (USGS) will provide updated scientific data on critical mineral resources and the environmental and geological implications of seabed development ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) analysis identifies almost 30 billion barrels of oil and about 400 trillion cubic feet of natural gas under national parks, wilderness areas and other public lands.