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

For the first time, researchers are able to add hydrologic estimates to find where reintroducing beavers could best benefit a watershed and the humans who live within it.

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 ...

Daniel James installs a drip rate monitor on a flowstone in Grutas Tzabnah cave in the state of Yucatán, Mexico, as part of a cave monitoring campaign. Credit: Sebastian Breitenbach, 2022 A stalagmite ...

The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, was one of three eruption events studied by researchers investigating links between flooding and volcanic gases. Credit: Dave Harlow/USGS, Public ...

The aftermath of the landslide dam breach at Matai'an in Taiwan. Image by the Forest Protection Department. At least 15 people are known to have been killed by the debris flow and flood from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In high-latitude Arctic fjords, warming seas and reduced sea ice are boosting seaweed growth. This expansion of seaweed “forests” could alter the storage and cycling of carbon in coastal Arctic ...