Category: Earth & Environment

The Department of the Interior is taking decisive steps to recover critical minerals essential to America’s economic strength, national defense, and energy future from mine waste, coal refuse, tailings and abandoned uranium mines. In launching the effort, Secretary Doug Burgum cited “groundbreaking research from the U.S. Geological Survey that identifies promising sources of these minerals.”

RESTON, VA. — The U.S. Geological Survey used cutting-edge Earth science to publish the first off-planet mineral prospectivity map – assessing likely places to find lunar ice near the Lunar South Pole for a NASA mission. 

The Department of the Interior announced a USGS report on undiscovered oil and gas resources under the federally managed public lands of the U.S., estimating that there are technically recoverable resources of 29.4 billion barrels of oil and 391.6 trillion cubic feet of gas.

RESTON, VA. — The U.S. Geological Survey released its assessment of potential for undiscovered oil and gas in the Niobrara Formation in southwest Wyoming and northwest Colorado, assessing that there are technically recoverable resources of 703 million barrels of oil and 5.8 trillion cubic feet of gas. 

A new USGS report estimated 473 million barrels of oil and 27 trillion cubic feet of natural gas are undiscovered and technically recoverable in the Mowry Composite Total Petroleum System in Southwest Wyoming and Northeast Colorado.

After about a week of recovering from frigid temperatures that hit much of the Florida panhandle in late January, around 1,000 sea turtles rescued from cold waters have been returned to their habitat in St. Joseph Bay off the panhandle of Florida. 

A new progress report showcases how partnership and federal investment have advanced the National Seed Strategy, a pragmatic tool for restoring healthy ecosystems.

This week the White House released the first Quadrennial Supply Chain review, detailing supply chains critical for national and economic security. 

Have you ever walked through a forest and felt a little spooked? Well, that’s definitely the vibe of ghost forests!

On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 PM, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit near Loma Prieta, CA., shaking the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions. The epicenter was near Loma Prieta peak, about 9 miles northeast of Santa Cruz and 60 miles southeast of San Francisco. Below are resources to understand the significance of this earthquake,…

Imagine you could use just a few drops of water to know what sorts of animals and plants were present in an area. What an incredible tool this would be. It could be used to look for rare species, to catalogue how many were present or to monitor for introductions of new, potentially harmful species.

The discovery of a previously-unknown population of threatened Ringed Map Turtles was released April 30