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.

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 ...

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

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

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

Contrary to conventional wisdom that glaciers just carve landscapes, they can also form low-relief surfaces by sheltering ...

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 ...

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

Quantifying carbon export to the deep ocean is critical for understanding changes in Earth’s climate. Measurements in the ...