Twenty years of data from around the world show that areas that are not too dry and not too wet are most conducive to ...

Increasing interplay among extreme events and land subsidence impacts calls for urgent mitigation and policy action to reduce detrimental ramifications to infrastructure and people.

A new framework aims to better equip scientists, communities, and decisionmakers to characterize data and rapidly respond to ...

Southern Oscillation’s global reach and complex ocean–atmosphere interactions across timescales, two simple, elegant equations capture its key dynamics and defining properties.

Contrary to conventional wisdom that glaciers just carve landscapes, they can also form low-relief surfaces by sheltering ...

The first person of color and first Earth scientist to serve as director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science ...

Researchers have found chemicals from personal care products like shampoo, deodorant, and laundry soap in Antarctic snow.

La extracción desmedida de aguas subterráneas podría estar obligando a los ríos a infiltrar agua hacia el subsuelo, según ...

Hailstones have been said to bounce up and down through clouds as they grow. A new study found that many stones take much ...

A modeling study shows how warm subtropical waters and cold Antarctic waters combine to form an Indo-Pacific water mass that ...

A new attribution study shows every single extreme heat event since last May was made more probable by climate change.

Healthy soil is the foundation of our food, clean water, and a stable climate, and cutting-edge science helps us to protect ...