A new study warns that day zero droughts—when reservoirs fail to supply taps—could become common within this decade.

Tectonicist Michael DeLucia stands in front of the Great Unconformity in the St. Francois Mountains, near Missouri’s Mark Twain National Forest. The smooth rock in the photo is Precambrian rhyolite, ...

A translation of this article was made possible by a partnership with Planeteando. Una traducción de este artículo fue posible gracias a una asociación con Planeteando. During her doctoral research, ...

Rainfall can wash topsoil from farm fields, a process that more extreme rainfall events will accelerate. Credit: John/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 Good topsoil does not accumulate quickly. Less than a tenth ...

This January 2014 photo shows the Australian Antarctic Division’s ice core drilling camp in Aurora Basin North, East Antarctica. Data from this effort help to quantify factors contributing to climate ...

With wildfires growing more frequent and more intense in many parts of the world, scientists are looking to the past to better understand where and when fires have burned. Lakes and wetlands, which ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In Denmark , there is a substantial scandal rumbling on around a ...

Congratulations to the 2020 section award recipients and named lecturers! The discoveries and solutions you have collectively made are remarkable. Each of you made tremendous personal sacrifices and ...

Various online datasets will allow a detailed understanding of Hurricane Melissa as it impacts Jamaica and then Cuba Hurricane Melissa is now making headlines around the world in anticipation of its ...

Seafloor pits like these may not all be created by methane leakage, as was previously thought. They may have been made for a different porpoise. Credit: Jens Schneider von Deimling In the murky waters ...

The solar system past Neptune is filled with an uncounted number of small, unusual worlds, from barely visible specks of ice to sugar-coated snowmen to Pluto and its five known satellites. These trans ...