Improvements in subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting (S2S), which projects weather 2 weeks to 2 months in advance, could support more informed decisions about when to plant and irrigate crops, among ...

Earthquake surface ruptures can cause severe damage to infrastructure and, while preventative measures can be taken to allow the structures to adapt in the case of an earthquake, one of the best ...

Alaska’s Copper River Delta is home to a wetland ecosystem influenced by multiple forces spanning geology, climate, and biology. Credit: NOAA Photo Library/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Increased warming in ...

Lead is a neurotoxin that can damage multiple body systems and lead to learning and developmental problems. The element has been phased out of use in paint, gasoline, and other industrial applications ...

Coral reef growth rates in the tropical western Atlantic have slowed to a fraction of what they once were, erasing coastal ...

The Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, grew dry and patchy during a 2016 drought. Credit: Anishdayal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual ...

The figure depicts the hierarchy of different types of Earth System climate models. These vary in complexity (increasing from bottom to top) and in the kinds of compromises sacrificed to computation.

As multiple fires raged through Los Angeles in January 2025, Bernadeth Tolentino had one more thing to worry about: kelp. Tolentino, a marine biologist and graduate student at the University of ...

Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law and policy changes that impact science and scientists today. Advocates, scientists, ...

Stemflow, or the flow of water along the surface of a plant’s stem, has been a subject of inquiry in forest hydrology since the latter half of the 1800s given its relevance to water balance studies.

Climate subsystems, such as summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, can undergo abrupt shifts as temperatures rise. Credit: khail Varentsov, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 They then ...

Bubbles have a big impact on how much carbon dioxide gets dissolved in ocean water. Credit: Allan LEONARD/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 When waves break, they create multitudes of tiny bubbles that carry gases ...