During the last ice age, storms soaked the now-arid Southwestern U.S., while today's rainy Pacific Northwest remained relatively dry. As global temperatures rose and ice sheets retreated, those storms ...

More information: R. L. Tyne et al, Passive degassing of lithospheric volatiles recorded in shallow young groundwater, Nature Geoscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01702-7 ...

Worldwide, farming is responsible for more than 20% of greenhouse gas emissions and uses more than 70% of all fresh water ...

Matt LaFever has reported on California’s North Coast in print and radio for nearly a decade. A Humboldt State grad and ...

Groundwater records from the last ice age indicate that aquifers in the U.S. Southwest are more sensitive to global warming than aquifers in the Pacific Northwest.

A coalition has begun an effort to bring back Tulare Lake and its once-vast wetlands on thousands of acres of farmland in the ...

In this fascinating build, we dig 6 meters deep into the earth to find groundwater—and then use that discovery to create a functional and beautiful underground house built completely by hand using ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

Move beyond lithium and its dominance in semiconductors. There exists a group of 17 other metals with mostly difficult-to-pronounce names but whose products are widespread around us. Here’s a full ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...