The San Andreas and San Jacinto faults have ruptured simultaneously at least three times in the past 2,000 years, most...
The United States should immediately move to create a collection of strategic forest reserves in the Western U.S. to fight...
Pollen can travel far through the air, allowing scientists who find them to trace the winds of the past. Maaike...
Nasty winter tornadoes—like the deadly ones last week that hit five states—are likely to be stronger and stay on the...
The technology, which is described today in Nature Food, could help growers work out the best time to use fertilizer...
Clearing California’s forests of dense overgrowth is a critical first step for curbing catastrophic wildfire in the state. But forest...
Lightning is one of the most destructive forces of nature, as in 2020 when it sparked the massive California Lightning...
Climate change and warmer conditions have altered snow-driven extremes and previous studies predict less and slower snowmelt in the northern...
Because plants take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into food, forests and other similar ecosystems are...
Over the past 40 years, winters in California have become drier. This is a problem for the region’s agricultural operations,...
The natural structure of the rigid oceanic crust that forms a shell around Earth contains cracks and faults. These fissures...
A groundbreaking study led by researchers at Florida Atlantic University and an international team of scientists conclusively confirms the time...
