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...actually addressing the Cleveland eruption in the way that it really should be," said geophysicist John Power, the USGS scientist in charge at the Alaska Volcano Observatory.A second Alaska volcano began heating up Monday. Pavlof Volcano, 625...
...went into production last November and is performing better than expected. Bird said in doing the reassessment, USGS scientists extended the geologic trend found at Alpine west into the NPRA. "I think these numbers are very realistic given...
...and protect them and the young practice their flying and hunting skills. McIntyre and Michael Collopy, a former USGS scientist who is department chairman of Environmental and Resource Sciences at the University of Nevada in Reno, tracked the...
...the world's polar bears, including those along the coasts of Alaska and Russia, would be likely to disappear. USGS scientists also said that regional efforts to protect polar bears - such as restricting oil and gas development or subsistence...
...on the low side. "There is a definite link between changes in the sea ice and the welfare of polar bears," said USGS scientist Steven Amstrup, the lead author of the new studies. "As the sea ice goes, so goes the polar bear." Amstrup said...
...Salazar said the U.S. Geological Survey will examine research already done on the Beaufort and Chukchi seas. USGS scientists then will decide what still needs to be studied to better determine the environmental effects of drilling, respond...
...levels, the researchers said. "Some ecosystems are more sensitive than others," said Barbara Scudder, the lead USGS scientist on the study. All but two states - Alaska and Wyoming - have issued fish-consumption advisories because of mercury...
...Kasatochi went from a quiet volcano to an explosive eruption within 24 hours and with very little warning," said USGS scientist Marianne Guffanti. Scientists relied on seismic instruments on other volcanoes in the area to detect the eruption...
...notoriously difficult to count. No population estimate is available for the Chukchi Sea population shared with Russia but USGS scientists found troubling signs in the Beaufort Sea population. A 2006 study found far fewer polar bears cubs were surviving...
...possibility of adverse and destructive effects," JFK told an audience at the National Academy of Sciences in 1963. USGS scientist were to apply radioactive fallout to designated plots in the area. They would then water these plots and catch the...