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 ...

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

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

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

A record of soil moisture that extends over one thousand years allows for the investigation of occurrence and causes of ...

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