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A group of investigators at the US Geological Survey has just finished conducting a risk assessment of the Tahoe-Sierra frontal fault zone, which is located west of California's Lake Tahoe. They concluded that the area can generate earthquakes of magnitude 6.3 to 6.9. This represents a significant risk increas... |
25 May 2012
11:30 GMT |
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Using data from the Landsat satellite constellation, experts at the American space agency have recently created a new time-lapse video of Mount St. Helens and the surrounding areas, showing how life recovered following the volcano's massive, May 18, 1980 eruption. The event saw the entire northern face of the ... |
21 May 2012
04:01 GMT |
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A collaboration of American researchers demonstrated in a new study that the lifetime movements of trout in large river systems can be tracked by analyzing their earbones. These results may be used to develop a new method of studying the fish unobtrusively.
Details of the research were published in the latest issue... |
2 May 2012
06:55 GMT |
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) announces that a significant, magnitude 8.7 earthquake took place off the west coast of northern Sumatra, in Indonesia, at 08:38:38 UTC (04:38 EDT) today.
Officials with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center immediately issued a tsunami warning for several countries, including... |
11 April 2012
05:51 GMT |
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The copper striped blue-tailed skink (Emoia impar) is now extinct from the Hawaiian Archipelago, researchers at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announce. The lizard represents the latest native vertebrate to disappear from its original, tropical habitat.
The sleek creature had smooth, polished scales and... |
21 March 2012
05:13 GMT |
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North America's Yellowstone National Park rests atop the only known active supervolcano in the world. For tens of square miles, underground “plumbing” stretches far and wide, fueling hot springs and geysers alike. Now, researchers take a closer look at how this system functions.
The park contains a ... |
5 March 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Politicians in the United States can often be heard talking about how American dependency on foreign oil and gas is one of the nation's greatest weakness. In response to this situation, the US Geological Survey has just created the first estimates of the undiscovered, technically-recoverable onshore shale oil an... |
25 February 2012
07:09 GMT |
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An investigation conducted by experts at that United States Geological Survey (USGS) has revealed that radiations released following the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant can be measured throughout the United States.
The group took air samples from 167 sites all over the country, and dis... |
23 February 2012
04:52 GMT |
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Concentrations of the known carcinogen radium – a naturally-occurring, radioactive chemical – in aquifers exceeds limits deemed safe by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) throughout the eastern seaboard of the United States, as well as in central regions of the country.
The shocking discovery was... |
15 February 2012
09:23 GMT |
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) may receive a budget of $1.1 billion (€840 million) for Fiscal Year 2013. The President's 2013 budget request is about $34.5 million above 2012 levels, an increase that reflects the high performances that the federal agency displayed this year.
Studies such as th... |
14 February 2012
03:14 GMT |
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Permafrost is known as one of the most important sources of methane and carbon dioxide on the planet. The dangerous greenhouse gases are locked inside the frosty soils, but global warming can easily bring them out. A new study now looks at how permafrost thaws in its most sensible sectors.
For the investigation, th... |
24 January 2012
04:38 GMT |
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Scientists with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) say in their latest report to Congress that the incidence of acid rain events throughout the country has been in sharp decline over the past few years. The document, while optimistic, highlights the need for even more action.
The most important efforts to cu... |
20 January 2012
03:17 GMT |
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Officials with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announce that their Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) is turning 100 this year. Throughout 2012, a number of events and manifestations will mark this momentous occasion.
The installation is located on the rim of Mount Kilauea's caldera, in the Hawaii Vo... |
18 January 2012
06:03 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers from the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Montana say that the diminishing of the overall snowpack covering the Rocky Mountains is leading to a classic cascading ecological effect in surrounding habitats and ecosystems.
Researchers determined that a very strong shift ... |
11 January 2012
04:31 GMT |
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One-third of the maximum amount of food available historically needs to be present in an ecosystem housing seabirds at all times, in order for the animals to be able to survive. If supplies drop below this level, then there's a large chance that a large proportion of seabird populations will decline sharply.
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23 December 2011
05:07 GMT |
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One of the most ambitious tectonic research projects is currently nearing completion on the western coast of the United States. Its purpose is to drill a very deep hole straight into the San Andreas fault line, and install scientific measuring equipment within.The initiative belongs to the National Science Foundation... |
19 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Officials with the US Geological Survey announced that the organization can no longer collect data from its Landsat 5 Earth-imaging satellite. The cause of the malfunction is an electronic component that is currently degrading at a rapid pace.
The issue is not due to human or mechanical errors, but simply to old ag... |
18 November 2011
10:02 GMT |
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The American space agency and the US Geological Survey (USGS) say that they will continue to monitor the rate at which global resources are extracted, consumed, and therefore diminished. As more than 7 billion people now live all over the world, this is becoming an increasingly important issue.
The fact that the rat... |
17 November 2011
03:59 GMT |
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According to the results of a new analysis conducted by a Unites States Geological Survey (USGS) scientist, it would seem that the large earthquakes which affected the planet over the past couple of years are not indicative of a general trend towards more powerful tremors.
In other words, the magnitude 7.2 tremor t... |
8 November 2011
06:22 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and a number of universities has recently completed a new study of how global warming and climate change will affect the interconnected San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (the Bay-Delta system).
The research was meant to model w... |
3 November 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Over the past few years, biologists have noticed that numerous bat communities were falling prey to what was termed the white-nose syndrome (WNS). All attempts at figuring out what was causing the condition have failed until recently, when a team found the fungus responsible for the plight.
In a paper published in ... |
27 October 2011
03:47 GMT |
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A rich selection of image from United States Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat satellite's archive of Earth imagery has been selected by an UN group for addition to the Memory of the World International Register. The images are considered worthy to preserve humanity's documentary history. The recognition is ... |
26 October 2011
11:05 GMT |
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Investigators at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have recently completed a new study on the origins of elevated mercury concentrations in the Yukon River, one of the longest free-flowing rivers in the world. The team discovered that thawing permafrost was the primary contributor.
Naturally-occurring merc... |
26 October 2011
02:19 GMT |
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Investigators from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have determined in a new research that the concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere is only weakly correlated to the size of floods affecting North America.
The team is however keen to point out that these results do not exclude f... |
25 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake that struck the eastern parts of Turkey on Sunday, October 23, had a magnitude of about 7.2. The event occurred at around 1:41 pm local time (10:41 UTC), and caught people completely off-guard. The area in this NASA image focused just west of Lak... |
25 October 2011
01:08 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) was recently able to confirm a number of information they had collected of dune migrations on Navajo Nation lands.USGS geologist Dr. Margaret Hiza has been studying these migration patterns for decades. She explains that she conducted interview... |
24 October 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Most of the world's complex equipment, including the vast majority of electronics, are constructed using rare Earth elements (REE), a collection of chemicals that is hard to come by. Now that China has a monopoly on harvesting and selling REE, the other countries are left to fend for themselves.
This is very... |
11 October 2011
09:55 GMT |
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After conducting arguably the most comprehensive geological study ever carried out in Afghanistan, an international collaboration of scientists determined that the country's underground is very rich in various resources. Using these riches could contribute to moving the Middle Eastern nation forward.
This wor... |
30 September 2011
14:01 GMT |
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In a paper accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the the Elsevier journal Applied Geochemistry, researchers at the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Virginia (UV) present evidence that the entire planet is becoming more acidic.The effect is no longer confined to oceans, the team explains, b... |
23 September 2011
11:28 GMT |
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Seals, polar bears and walruses are all species that are heavily dependent on ice for their very survival. As ice sheets are getting smaller due to the effects of global warming, experts are beginning to study how these species handle the change. American experts are just embarking on such an endeavor. The work is be... |
17 August 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Researchers at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are very interested in establishing how trends in ocean acidification fare over time. To that end, they are about to embark on a new scientific expedition, this time to the Arctic Ocean. The US Coast Guard made its cutter vessel Healy available to USGS scienti... |
11 August 2011
03:43 GMT |
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Scientists with the US Geological Survey (USGS) have calculated that leaves falling off trees in the autumn transfer as much mercury from the atmosphere to the environment as precipitations do.The work was focused on surveying the quantities of hazardous mercury that makes its way into the environment. According to r... |
3 August 2011
03:13 GMT |
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Experts with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announce that the conclusions of their latest study support in part the idea that the survival of a population of endangered shorebird species is dependent on the number of horseshoe crabs living inside the same ecosystem. The shorebird species is called red kno... |
5 July 2011
10:57 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United States says that the rates at which snowpacks on the Rocky Mountains collapse are higher than any other recorded over the past centuries. The difference can only be attributed to man-made global warming, and the climate change it induces.The study focused on how the ices on the ... |
10 June 2011
05:58 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers from multiple government agencies set out on June 4 on an expedition meant to analyze and map the deepwater canyons that exist at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.The research effort will be focused on an areas about 100 miles off the coast of Virginia and Maryland, where many of these ... |
10 June 2011
05:42 GMT |
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As the impoverished nation of Haiti is struggling to rebuild itself following the earthquake that devastated its population in January 2010, experts are not painting a very encouraging picture. The latest seismic risk maps are very worrying, analysts say.
These maps are created precisely to help Haitian authorities ... |
25 May 2011
01:21 GMT |
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The conclusions of an independent review confirm the initial conclusions that the US Geological Survey (USGS) drew on the risk of a major earthquake occurring above and around the New Madrid Seismic Zone. The new work demonstrated that the conclusions the USGS drew were based on solid science, and urges authorities t... |
27 April 2011
09:52 GMT |
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In spite of being constantly overlooked by any type of conservation or domestication programs, bats are critically important to agriculture, performing a service that would otherwise cost the US federal government an estimated $3 billion per year.These creatures provide a tremendously-efficient pest-control service, ... |
1 April 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Marine biologists in the United States were able to establish the age of deep-sea black corals in the Gulf of Mexico with tremendous accuracy. During a new study, they calculated the exact age of these marine creatures for the first time, and determined some colonies to be more than 2,000 years old. The age of the re... |
31 March 2011
08:42 GMT |
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According to experts, there is no correlation between massive earthquakes occurring on one side of the globe and other, potential tremors that may occur on the other side. In other words, events like the one that took place in Japan on March 11 are unlikely to cause similar devastations elsewhere. What scientists fai... |
29 March 2011
05:05 GMT |
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In a recent water availability assessment the US Geological Survey (USGS) conducted on the Great Lakes basin, it was demonstrated that the area has a significant potential for water shortages. The situation is very worrying, because this particular basin is the largest and widest freshwater system in the world. If it... |
7 February 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Scientists at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announce that they were finally able to determine the cause that led to the mass death of birds in Arkansas and Louisiana on New Year's Eve.According to the investigators, most of these animals were killed by impact trauma. The team that conducted the work... |
11 January 2011
04:45 GMT |
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At this point, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies are getting a lot of attention from authorities and researchers alike, as well as a large number of feasibility studies meant to assess their true potential. The results of such a study were recently announced by the Department of Interior. DOI official say... |
16 December 2010
05:46 GMT |
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has just released a new report on the state of forests in the country, and the picture the document paints is not at all flattering for southwestern forests, experts say. At the current rate, they are faced with a bleak future. Experts being the investigation have determined... |
14 December 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Experts with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announce that they were able to discover the main source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the nation's lakes. Some of these compounds are believed to be carcinogens when in the human body.The team analyzed samples collected from about 40 urban l... |
2 December 2010
06:17 GMT |
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A new investigation conducted by the US Geological Survey has demonstrated that the amount of water flowing through rivers in the United States has experienced massive alterations for the worse over the past few decades.The research is important because it highlights land and water management practices as the main fa... |
3 November 2010
09:47 GMT |
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Scientists are not in the habit of advising national authorities to evacuate the general population from areas surrounding active volcanoes at the first sings of trouble. However, at times, they are very quick to do so, based on telltale signs that can be interpreted with ease by experts. Planetary scientists can use... |
26 October 2010
05:25 GMT |
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A new long-term investigation has revealed that global warming and climate change are having a profound effect on mountain vegetation, especially at low elevations. The research was carried out by scientists in the United States, who wanted to investigate how vegetation patterns changed on and around mountains over t... |
26 October 2010
03:11 GMT |
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Officials at the United States Geological Survey announce the launch of two new public tools, that allow people to report sick or dead animals in areas across the United States. This could help curb the spread of epidemics that can affect the human population as well.Diseases can break out in the wild just as well as... |
25 October 2010
10:33 GMT |
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Scientists in the United States say that the January 12 earthquake that struck Haiti had its intensity amplified by local landforms and landscapes surrounding the capital Port-au-Prince. This city was the most affected by the effects of the shallow tremor, and thousands of people lost their lives here because of poor... |
18 October 2010
01:40 GMT |
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