Access to safe, affordable water is a necessity for human health and well-being. But when droughts strike areas that are...
Nearly 100 million years ago, the Earth experienced an extreme environmental disruption that choked oxygen from the oceans and led...
As damaging as it was for more than 32 trillion gallons of rain and snow to fall on California since...
The warming of the waters off the East Coast has come at an invisible, but very steep cost—the loss of...
Where does the water come from that provides drinking water to people in a particular region? What feeds these sources...
In a new journal article, EPFL professor Tom Battin reviews our current understanding of carbon fluxes in the world’s river...
A comprehensive new study led by Professor Gwen Robbins Schug at UNC Greensboro traces the impact of rapid climate change...
A new computational system uses satellite data to identify sites on land where people dispose of waste, providing a new...
When the rigid plates that make up Earth’s lithosphere brush against one another, they often form visible boundaries, known as...
Vast amounts of plastic debris accumulate on beaches across the Seychelles and other small island developing states. Observational analysis (for...
A long-term Pacific Northwest study of landslides, clear-cutting timber and building roads shows that a forest’s management history has a...
A new study shows that global atmospheric dust—microscopic airborne particles from desert dust storms—has a slight overall cooling effect on...
