It just got way, way easier to search and browse the US Geological Survey’s collection of historical topographic maps, thanks to a new online map viewer. These maps—more than 178,000 of them—date back ...

I've only seen some limited efforts on the local level in the past. The city of Seattle has been collecting landslide data since 1890, so they have a wonderful data bank of historical land-movement ...

The 133-year-old Biological Survey Unit, slated to be closed this year, has gotten a short reprieve from the budget ax, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The U.S. Geological ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Erosion caused by Hurricane Sandy reached "historic proportions," suggesting not all Category 1 storms are minimal events, the USGS said. Sandy struck the U.S. East Coast ...