75% of USA at Risk of Damaging Earthquakes With 1,000 Fault Lines Recorded Around the Country, USGS Warns

Medicine & Technology Jan 18, 2024

USGS found hundreds more fault lines in the United States, warning that most part of the country is at risk of damaging earthquakes. Continue reading to learn more.

NASA Landsat-9 Satellite To Help Examine Crop Health, Irrigation; Here's How!

Nov 08, 2021

Landsat 9, a NASA-USGS collaborative mission, will help people in the management of key natural resources and the understanding of climate change consequences.

NASA, USGS Shares First Ever Photos From Landsat-9 Satellite; What Makes It Special?

Nov 06, 2021

NASA-USGS Landsat 9 satellite has finally opened its eyes and beamed home its first photos of Earth to help scientists understand climate change.

Glacier National Park Decreased Numbers of Glaciers From 150 To 26

May 15, 2017

The United States Geological Survey has reported that the Glacier National Park saw a dramatic decrease of glaciers,

San Andreas Ready to Blow – In Theaters and In Real Life

May 26, 2015

Admit it, there's nothing more fun than sitting in a dark theatre, munching on a bucket of buttery popcorn, and watching the Earth get demolished. In the latest round of catastrophic flicks, California is destroyed as the famous San Andreas Fault unleashes unimaginable (and unrealistic) devastation across the state. Aren't they still recovering from Godzilla?

Finding the Origins of Chinook Salmons Through the ‘Otolith’ of the Inner Ear

May 17, 2015

Over the course of many years researchers have sought out to find exactly where Alaska’s Chinook salmon are hatched. The process is known, the migratory patterns are mapped, yet for any given fish caught in the wide open ocean, the story of its origins are often shrouded in mystery—but now that has changed. With a simple chemical marker, accumulating in the inner ear bone of the salmon known as an “otolith”, researchers now believe that they can trace the origins of any Chinook salmon back to the exact waters from which they came before they emerged in Alaska’s Bristol Bay.