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

The USGS has revealed than around 71 to 95 million Americans may rely on groundwater supplies with detectable levels of PFAS.

Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth. The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works ...

A helicopter dangling a massive, hula hoop-shaped sensor will soon be carrying out low-level flights above the High Desert as ...

In the case of USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologic mapping on the Island of Hawaii, the primary map units of interest are volcanic vents (such as fissures and scoria cones) and their ...