El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the...
An international group of researchers led by geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg have come up with multiple lines of...
New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that are expelled during eruptions...
Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability when rain water evades natural purification processes in the soil. This was...
Plastic rubbish is everywhere and now broken-down microplastics have been found in variable concentrations in blue mussels and water within...
The frequency of thunderstorms in some fast-growing African coastal cities has doubled over the past 30 years, with much of...
Summer storms are generally more frequent, intense and concentrated over cities than over rural areas, according to new, detailed observations...
Florida State University researchers have analyzed the carbon exported from surface waters of the California Current Ecosystem—the first-ever study to...
Scientists have developed artificial intelligence techniques to track the development of crevasses—or fractures—on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue in west...
The soils of northern forests are key reservoirs that help keep the carbon dioxide that trees inhale and use for...
A new study from UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher emeritus Peter Bromirski uses nearly a century of...
The Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that rivers that only flow in response to weather events—called ephemeral streams—do not fall...
