A community-led project in California shows how collaboration can reshape farmland to improve water resources, restore native plants, and create recreational space.

The participants collected water samples from places people access water during their daily lives, such as hand pumps that supply drinking water. The research team brought the samples back to the ...

Advances in virtual and augmented reality, spatial computing, and other technologies offer chances to work with data more ...

An enigmatic feature of frozen soils can be explained in part by non-Newtonian fluid physics. Enter the Oobleck.

New research suggests that the loss of wetlands since 1985 has cost more than $10 billion in residential flood insurance ...

An uncertain funding landscape threatens the longevity of an ocean observation system critical to projecting tropical storms, ...

After a typhoon surprised a research cruise, scientists took advantage of the unique sampling opportunity to reveal rapid changes in bacterioplankton communities and biogeochemical cycling.

Advances in virtual and augmented reality, spatial computing, and other technologies offer chances to work with data more intuitively, benefiting Earth and space science research and education.

Advances in virtual and augmented reality, spatial computing, and other technologies offer chances to work with data more intuitively, benefiting Earth and space science research and education.

The gently sloping southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau preserves an important record of when and how the plateau expanded, yet its growth history remains contentious. By dating the cooling ...

Time is of the essence in tropical cyclone prediction: The more warning time a community has, the better prepared its members will be when a storm makes landfall. Currently, the path and nature of ...

The Yangtze River, seen here near Nanjing, experiences floods that can be exacerbated by tidal dynamics. Credit: Cheol Ryu/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Ocean tides push upstream along coastal ...