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In order to provide long-term storage of diverted surface water from the Rio Grande as part of the Aamodt water rights settlement,…

Groundwater-quality data were collected from 559 wells as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Project of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Program from January through December 2014. The data were…

Sources/Usage: Public Domain. Marcel Belaval Marcel Belaval, the new Deputy Director for the New England Water Science Center,…

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, welcomed a litter of two cheetah cubs. First-time mother, 4-year-old female Amani, birthed the cubs Oct. 3…

High concentrations of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) are responsible for excessive, or nuisance algal blooms in many ecosystems world-wide, and climate change is predicted to exacerbate the problem1,2. Excessive nutrients…

Water-level changes from 2002 to 2015 were examined in wells screened in the High Plains aquifer within the Republican River Basin and…

In response to Executive Order 13953, September 2020, NMIC staff completed a review of the current state of minerals on the Critical Minerals List, published as “Investigation of U.S. Foreign Reliance on Critical Minerals”,…

March 2021 issue of the Idaho Hydrologic Update from the USGS Idaho Water Science Center.…

As summer 2020 begins, here are a few highlights from the USGS Mineral Resources Program’s recent activities and publications.    Earth MRI Aeromagnetic Surveys  As the USGS Mineral Resources Program’s Earth Mapping Resource…

Wildfires can have severe consequences for animals like the greater sage-grouse that depend on sagebrush for food and shelter. The increasing frequency and size of wildfires in the western U.S. and subsequent invasion of exotic …