By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk Every spring, high-country streams and rivers in the American West begin to swell with water as the region’s snowpack starts to dissipate. It’s easy to assume that the ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 42, No. 2 (May 2022), pp. R1-R8 (8 pages) Understanding the mountain hydrological cycle, including runoff processes, is important for water-related disaster ...

As the number of major utility-scale ground solar panel installations grows, concerns about their impacts on natural hydrologic processes also have grown. However, a new study by Penn State ...

I was sitting in a meeting yesterday watching extremely high rainfall rates from an unnamed tropical system passing through Georgia. As the rain hit the parking lot, some of it rushed to drains while ...

In a vivid effort to make the invisible visible, scientists in Switzerland have dyed the meltwater of the Rhône Glacier a ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 115, No. 11 (March 13, 2018), pp. 2664-2669 (6 pages) Recent theory and field observations suggest that a ...

A few months ago I had the equivalent of a science education “mini-rant” in Forbes. I thought about K-12 class lessons about the water cycle, and the glaring omission in all of them. If you are old ...

Editor’s note: The KOIN 6 Weather team is presenting weather and science lessons to help serve our teachers and students. Click here for more lessons. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Have you ever wondered, ...

Forestry is the theory and practice, the science and art, of the study, creation, conservation, use and management of forests and related processes, the organisms that live in it, and all ...