This encompasses the interactions between various parts of the atmosphere as well as interactions with the oceans and freshwater systems ... combined with regional weather variability to create ...

Its extensive network of tributaries and streams hosts the largest array of freshwater fish ... with the biome enduring greater and greater stress and instability due to worsening deforestation and ...

But it also represents a dramatic shift in NOAA’s mission. NOAA has long served as the nation’s preeminent climate and weather agency, and the new marching orders would downsize those ...

The results of recent research reveal both the vulnerability and the surprising resilience of tropical seagrass, despite the ...

La Nina, the natural cooling flip side of the better-known and warmer El Nino climate phenomenon, has dwindled away after ...

A new study reveals significant changes in the global freshwater oxygen cycle. Rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs aren’t ...

UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton has been wading through thick, smelly muck in the ...

It will take a little time for the impacts of La Niña to fade completely, which tends to make the jet stream more variable ...

Drainage divide migration is influenced by tectonics and climate over long periods. New research in Israel shows that even shorter-term wet-dry cycles can move divides.

Engineers have created a sophisticated computer model that tracks how water moves in estuaries -- which is critical for evaluating climate variability and sea level fluctuation impacts for coastal ...