Researchers warn that preventable heat-related deaths will continue to rise with continued fossil fuel emissions.

The Auckland region is dotted with distinctive, visible volcanoes and mostly invisible fault lines. Scientists are still trying to understand how they’re connected. Credit: Bruce Hayward/Wikimedia ...

Today we are witnessing rapid global sea level rise attributable mostly to climate change–driven melting of ice sheets and glaciers and thermal expansion of seawater. However, sea level change also ...

High water levels can cause swift currents that make shipping barges difficult to maneuver and can overwhelm lock and dam systems. Such conditions have become more common since 1960, according to a ...

Carbon mineralization is a promising solution for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, but we must learn to optimize the complex interplay between reactions and mechanics in fractures to develop a ...

Evapotranspiration is a scientific measurement representing the combined sum of evaporation from the soil (or water) surface to the atmosphere and transpiration from plants, where liquid water inside ...

A recent photograph of the Matai'an landslide dam and lake in Taiwan. Image by the Forest Protection Administration of Taiwan. Extremely heavy rainfall associated with super typhoon Ragasa could cause ...

Indonesia’s Galunggung volcano erupted in 1982, generating volcanic lightning. That phenomenon could have helped fix nitrogen. Credit: R. Hadian, U.S. Geological Survey Volcanoes belched the gases ...

A new study reconstructs roughly 800 years of streamflow history in India’s major rivers, showing an increase in synchronous drought linked to anthropogenic climate change.

Geodetic GPS station P311 atop the Sierra Nevada mountains at Coyote Ridge, near Bishop, Calif., with an elevation of 3,699 meters. This station, along with many others, shows that these mountains are ...

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