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.

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 ...

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

High-latitude variations in density, which appear to be driven by changes in atmospheric pressure, can propagate to ...

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

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

Warmer winter temperatures have altered frost patterns and growing seasons across the United States, forcing botanical ...

Glacial troughs in Antarctica promote mixing of warm and cold water, affecting global climate. A new study explores whether ...

Long-term monitoring at a site in the subantarctic region south of Australia combined with ship-based observations reveals ...

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