Wells overpumping groundwater could be forcing rivers to seep underground, a new study shows. Regions with intensive ...

Low-level clouds over the oceans, extensively studied for their role in climate change, are re-examined from a new perspective that applies machine learning to radar observations.

During a voyage off the east coast of Africa, researchers collected detailed measurements of massive swirling currents that ...

A new ensemble of marine ecosystem models aims to improve understanding of how climate change will affect the waters ...

The International Union of Geological Sciences chose not to designate a new geologic epoch, but the matter is not yet settled ...

The source for the isotopically-enriched Hawaiian magmas contains peridotites that experienced near-surface melting prior ...

Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.

Regional climate variability plays a big role, but reduced forest cover and a rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide are also ...

Non-volcanic tremor ramp up precedes slow slip in Cascadia by about a day, indicating that brittle-creeping process ...

A new study explains how thunderstorm electric fields produce strong gamma‐ray glows with oscillating gamma‐ray rates, and that these oscillations develop into intense pulse trains that closely ...

NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world. Every year, the agency is responsible for awarding nearly $48 billion in grants for investigations into everything from cancer ...