Science Features
Scientists and communities are working together to make science more useful and communities safer. What one emergency manager has to say.
A summer intern turned permanent employee discusses his career path. Most memorable moment
Caribou expert Layne Adams discusses the lives of reindeer — apart from their famous role on Christmas Eve. How they survive the cold.
200 years ago, the central Mississippi River Valley was violently shaken by a series of three large earthquakes and thousands of aftershocks. Similar risk today.
Climate science is helping to predict food shortages, identify impacts on human health, and prepare for future conditions.
Perhaps some of you have already experienced a sweet holiday smooch or two under the Christmas mistletoe, enjoying this fairly old kissing ritual for people. But mistletoe is important in other vital ways: it provides essential food, cover, and nesting sites for an amazing number of critters in the United States and elsewhere.
Although no one is quite sure where the coal for naughty kids custom came from, the truth is that coal has long been a very important part of our daily lives, let alone our holiday traditions. USGS has studied coal for much of our more than 130-year existence.
Over the next 10 years, the USGS plans to conduct a new assessment of water availability and use. This national Water Census will address critical aspects of recent Federal legislation, including the need to establish a national water assessment program.
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