Intended to improve soil health, these crops are also associated with moisture depletion at shallow depths, which ...
The authors of this year’s Arctic Report Card said the consistently extreme climate observations in the Arctic indicate a ...
The strange blend of surface chemistry on Nix and Hydra raises big question about the evolution of the Pluto system.
Rising seas spell doom for coastal wetlands trapping carbon—or do they? New research reveals that as these ecosystems ...
Researchers compared caribou tracking data with satellite observations to learn whether snowpack conditions trigger the animals’ arduous annual migration.
Rising seas spell doom for coastal wetlands trapping carbon—or do they? New research reveals that as these ecosystems transition, they can still trap carbon and possibly cool the planet.
Taking baseball’s mysterious Rubbing Mud into the lab revealed no magic ingredients—but plenty of useful natural properties ...
New analysis of Voyager 2 observations shows that the craft arrived amid gusty solar wind, muddying our ideas about the giant ...
City-level strategies to cope with climate change can benefit from the insights of volcano scientists, who have long ...
Researchers find that the motions of ice parcels determine which ones survive the annual summer melt.
On 10 December, author Anna Farro Henderson will speak at Busboys and Poets on K Street about Core Samples: A Climate ...
Large-scale disruptions to life may ultimately increase ecological complexity over geologic timescales, though the risk of extinction always looms.