Like heat waves, these periods of high atmospheric demand for water can damage crops and ecosystems and increase pressure on ...

New seismic images of the Lucky Strike slow-spreading segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show thick lower crust at the center ...

Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

A team of dozens spent weeks in the Rwenzori Mountains capturing drone photography, GPS coordinates, and ground-penetrating ...

Coal-fired power plants in India—responsible for generating 73.4% of the country’s electricity —are bad for the country’s ...

During a voyage off the east coast of Africa, researchers collected detailed measurements of massive swirling currents that ...

La Unión Internacional de Ciencias Geológicas decidió no designar una nueva época geológica, pero el asunto aún no se ha resuelto.

Wild animals expend 76,000 gigajoules of energy—the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of monsoons or floods—shaping our ...

Las estrategias pensadas para ciudades enteras para hacer frente al cambio climático pueden beneficiarse de los conocimientos ...

Wells overpumping groundwater could be forcing rivers to seep underground, a new study shows. Regions with intensive ...

A new ensemble of marine ecosystem models aims to improve understanding of how climate change will affect the waters ...