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Researchers found that between 2002 and 2015, a 3.2% reduction in Brazilian forest cover led to a 5.4% reduction in ...
A new study evaluates the performance of kilometer-scale models in predicting large tropical storms, which are key drivers of extreme rainfall and severe weather.
Climate change–accelerated seaweed growth could cause seaweed-dependent microbes to proliferate and consume more oxygen, ...
A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey finds that groundwater in Appalachia, the Gulf Coast, and California is ...
Miles away from the ocean, projects are afoot to clean up salty groundwater and use it to grow crops. Some say it’s a costly ...
A wider swath of the Lone Star State may be affected by more heat and flood events than previous recordkeeping suggests.
Climate models produce widely varying predictions for what will happen to this influential ocean current, but most models ...
GRIT provides a much more detailed look at how rivers merge and split, which could enhance hydrological modeling, flood ...
Data dashboards assist in understanding a community’s vulnerability to climate impacts, but input from the communities ...
The bad odors of air pollution are difficult to regulate, but can pose significant health risks, reduce a home’s property ...
Curiosity’s detection of the gas, if atmospheric, could be an indicator of life on the Red Planet. But skeptics say further ...
The most populated cities in the country are slowly subsiding, posing risks to infrastructure and exacerbating flooding—and ...