Coastal dunes are complex and rich areas at the interface between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. They are extremely rich in...
The Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that rivers that only flow in response to weather events—called ephemeral streams—do not fall...
Who knew Earth’s upper atmosphere was like alphabet soup? NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has...
Experts have identified 240 Chinese cities whose emission reductions are mainly benefiting from the carbon mitigation actions of other cities,...
Slush—water-soaked snow—makes up more than half of all meltwater on the Antarctic ice shelves during the height of summer, yet...
Across Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and the Americas, El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) brings variations in winds, weather, and ocean...
For the first time, researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography led an international team that directly measured...
Colossal undersea mountains, towering up to thousands of meters high, stir up deep sea currents: impacting how our ocean stores...
Many municipal landfills “burp” gas from decomposing organic matter rather than letting it build up. And burps from buried waste...
Iceland’s ongoing volcanic eruptions may continue on and off for years to decades, threatening the country’s most densely populated region...
A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has used machine learning—an application of artificial intelligence—to detect the hidden signals that...
Nearly half of the world’s large lakes have lost resilience, or the ability to bounce back after an abrupt disturbance,...
