Three recent papers authored by Ted Schuur, Regents’ professor of biological sciences at Northern Arizona University, and other researchers around...
Scientists for decades have attempted to learn more about the complex and mysterious chain of events by which tiny droplets...
Rainfall fluctuates more vigorously. Why? Scientists say it’s because of us. Many people around the world have noticed that rainfall...
New research shows that California’s Central Valley, known as America’s breadbasket, gets as much as half of its groundwater from...
A type of invisible, unpredictable air turbulence is expected to occur more frequently in the Northern Hemisphere as the climate...
Research by Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) examining greenhouse gas emissions from the drying lake bed of Great Salt Lake, Utah,...
Nitrogen fertilizers and nitrogen oxides from fossil fuels are known for their environmental damage: they pollute the air and drinking...
Giant plumes of Sahara Desert dust that gust across the Atlantic can suppress hurricane formation over the ocean and affect...
Government agencies, insurance companies and disaster planners rely on national flood risk models from the private sector that aren’t reliable...
New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) has found that the Southern...
America’s demand for products delivered to the doorstep has led to a dramatic increase in e-commerce and the warehousing industry....
Toxic “forever chemicals” are increasingly being used in US pesticides, threatening human health as they contaminate waterways and are sprayed...