The Southern Ocean is renowned for having the cleanest air on Earth. But the precise reasons why have remained a...
Recent decades have witnessed rapid changes in the Arctic climate, with warming rates surpassing global averages by three to four...
In Earth science, small details can help explain massive events. Rita Parai, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary...
Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting...
An extensive CO2 monitoring network set up around the San Francisco Bay Area by an atmospheric chemist from the University...
A scientific review has found almost no research studying the interconnections across three major threats to planetary health, despite UN...
When disaster hits, a quick and coordinated response is needed, and that requires data to assess the nature of the...
A research team led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in collaboration with the University of Alaska-Anchorage and Columbia University,...
Until now, groundwater—a critical water resource around the globe, especially in dry regions—has been largely unstudied in its importance and...
New findings have revealed a coastal realm highly sensitive to changes in runoff and rainfall on land. After helping stoke...
California, a state known for its aggressive greenhouse gas reduction policies, is ironically the nation’s greatest emitter of one: sulfuryl...
Soil contains about twice as much carbon as the atmosphere and plants combined. It is a major carbon sink, capable...
