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A recent study by researchers at Columbia University revealed the states that had the highest levels of deadly arsenic in ...
Scientists found millions of Americans may be regularly exposed to dangerous levels of arsenic, and they may not even know it ...
The USGS partners on this effort with the Michigan Geological Survey, the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, and many other state geological surveys.
A version of this article appears in print on June 21, 2025, Section A, Page 16 of the New York edition with the headline: Maps Might Be Lost as Cuts Threaten Geological Surveys.
Funding for proposed landslide mapping and mitigation programs has not been in the North Carolina budget since 2018.
A fact sheet posted on the USGS website stated that the USGS “assessed undiscovered, technically recoverable conventional and continuous (unconventional) oil and gas resources in the Early to ...
Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated map from the U.S. Geological Survey.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) has released its first map of potential geologic hydrogen reserves in the United States, while Plug Power has secured a $1.66 billion US government loan guarantee ...
To learn more about the history of geological mapping in the Grand Canyon region, visit The Grand Canyon Dragon Map exhibit at the Museum of Northern Arizona, which will be on display until ...
U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Anji Shah oversees an initiative to map critical mineral resources like cobalt and lithium in the Carolinas and Virginia. She said the data will provide a rough ...
A first-ever study from the U.S. Geological Survey found roughly 40 percent of groundwater contains lithium above EPA's health reference level.