Twenty ensemble members from a 600-year climate simulation reveal that drought extremes are intensifying more rapidly than in the past with respect to moderate droughts.

Physical oceanographers might have a misconception about the anatomy of mixing at realistic Reynolds numbers in this important type of shear instability.

The trifecta of predicting, assimilating, and downscaling streamflow has arrived with generative diffusion AI models.

From ancient greenhouse worlds to ice ages, Earth's past offers vital clues to its future. Explore the 40th anniversary ...

Satellite image of the site of the Wanlixi landslide on the day before the failure. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 20 June 2026. Planet Labs satellite imagery ...

A new study paints a fuller picture of how heat affects respiratory health, especially in Baltimore’s socially vulnerable ...

Unseasonably warm weather that rapidly melts snowpack is becoming more widespread in the U.S. West and happening earlier in the year.

Landowners in North Carolina are interested in adopting conservation practices that reduce flood risk but are discouraged by time-consuming conservation programs that are difficult to navigate.

Transport via tidal creeks is a “major and often underrecognized” pathway of carbon in the coastal wetlands, and a gap in most blue carbon assessments, new research reports.

The Trump administration is pulling funding from NOAA’s Arctic Report Card, an annual, peer-reviewed report about the state ...