New tool helps protect communities from flooding during rain-on-snow events and optimize reservoir management (Jun 16, 2026 11:40)
While Reno families were celebrating the 1997 New Year, the Truckee River was surging i...
Argentine mining threatens scarce water resources in the Andes (Jun 16, 2026 08:40)
San Juan's once-sparkling rivers have shriveled due to drought, and residents in the ru...
Toxic 'time bomb' threatens Mekong river basin (Jun 16, 2026 08:20)
Thai fisherman Somdet Singthong steered his metal skiff across the brown waters of the ...
50-megapixel Earth models capture storms in unprecedented detail—but four consistent blind spots remain (Jun 16, 2026 08:00)
Traditional global climate models were like early digital cameras—they had only about 1...
6.7 magnitude earthquake shakes part of Indonesia, causing scattered damage (Jun 16, 2026 07:50)
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook part of central Indonesia's Sulawesi island Tuesday, c...
A new approach to the EU's promised cross-border climate action (Jun 16, 2026 04:00)
The EU must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040 relative to 1990—of whic...
Traditional legal systems are ill-equipped for the fast-moving realities of climate change, study warns (Jun 16, 2026 00:40)
Traditional legal systems around the world are increasingly ill-equipped to cope with t...
Brazil catchment models reveal opposite climate impacts on Amazon and Cerrado soils (Jun 15, 2026 23:40)
A comparative modeling study of two Brazilian rain catchments suggests that climate cha...
Climate compensation isn't always enough for landowners (Jun 15, 2026 23:20)
At first glance, it looks like a simple calculation. The state offers compensation. The...
Why Arctic sea ice loss could reshape the Gulf Stream's future (Jun 15, 2026 20:00)
The warm Gulf Stream is maintained by coldness. The Barents Sea is a cooling machine. T...
El Niño is back, and ocean temperatures are already near record highs—that can spell disaster for fish and corals (Jun 15, 2026 18:40)
It's official: El Niño is back. By late fall 2026, forecast models give a 2-in-3 chance...
PACE satellite tracks fall colors with near-daily global coverage (Jun 15, 2026 18:20)
Researchers have developed a new approach using data from NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Clo...
Efforts to combat climate change often exclude Indigenous people—and they may not have any recourse (Jun 15, 2026 17:40)
Imagine living in the same forest as your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and...
Northern permafrost switches from carbon sink to carbon source earlier than thought in models including deep soil carbon (Jun 15, 2026 16:59)
The Arctic and northern high latitudes are warming about 2–4 times faster than the glob...
Wind patterns play surprising role in tropical rainfall trends (Jun 15, 2026 15:20)
Changes in wind patterns play the leading role in influencing often devastating tropica...
Reforestation's effects on water resources may depend on global warming level (Jun 15, 2026 15:00)
Planting trees is widely promoted as a natural solution to climate change. But a new st...
Parks can cool neighborhoods and cut pollution hundreds of meters beyond their boundaries, study finds (Jun 15, 2026 14:40)
Urban parks could play a major role in protecting people from rising heat, pollution an...
Climate change reshapes Spain's rockfall risk as frost weathering moves uphill (Jun 15, 2026 09:40)
Climate change is altering where and when rocks are most likely to fracture across Spai...
Damaged boreal peatlands may triple methane emissions, reshaping climate risk (Jun 14, 2026 14:00)
A new study reveals that, for the first time, areas of Canada's boreal peatlands damage...
Ocean monitoring is in trouble: It's up to Europe and Asia to avoid losing sight of the world's deep‑sea ecosystems (Jun 13, 2026 22:30)
The world relies on a modest number of countries to keep watch over the ocean. That arr...