Somewhere beneath Kansas, a well drilled in the 1980s for natural gas kept returning an unexpected reading: hydrogen, in concentrations high enough to notice but not high enough for anyone to care ...
KBR has won a potential five-year, $350 million contract from the U.S. Geological Survey to provide technical support services for the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science, or EROS, Center.
Across the country, the data collected at stream gauges managed by the U.S. Geological Survey are used to implement drought measures when streamflows are low, alert local authorities of floods, help ...
While the figure is an official USGS estimate, extracting the mineral poses major technical and environmental challenges.