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Squat lobsters look like lobsters, but they are actually more closely related to hermit crabs. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that [supports HTML5 video ]( The squat lobster Eumunida picta. Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration a

The Nature Conservancy today transferred more than 2,300 acres of native prairie and wetlands to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the first piece of the 35,000-acre Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge. The country’s newest refuge, designated at a ceremony in St. Paul on October 12th, ensures

Filtering seawater and sediment to examine marine biodiversity in the Northern Mariana Islands.

It is a safe bet that the future will include a warmer Bering Sea. But it is uncertain exactly how climate change will be manifested, and in particular, how fast it will warm in summer versus winter, and in the north versus the south. Nevertheless, these details in the climate forcing are key in ter

Satellite images of the ancient city in Zanzibar highlight urbanization patterns and help researchers find new archaeological sites.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 18, 2011 Contact: Erica Szlosek (916) 978-6159 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Endangered Species Recovery Champion Awards for Pacific Southwest Region

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed the designation of 11,032 acres as critical habitat for Monterey spineflower (Corizanthe pungens var. pungens) in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. The plant is currently listed as threatened under the Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). Publicatio

The magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta quake killed at least 63 people in 1989. What the Bay Area and the USGS have learned and built since — hazard maps, ShakeMaps, retrofits worth over $30 billion — and why more is needed.

NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite reached a major milestone recently by completing the first year of its mission to gather the most comprehensive measures ever made of the Sun’s total energy . With its payload of four onboard sensors, the SORCE satellite “sees” the Sun’

At Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, a peat wetland in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has installed 46 water control structures in 150 miles of old drainage ditches since 2012. Hydrologists are using the structures to "re-wet" the