A new study investigates how diffuse light affects evapotranspiration and carbon uptake across forest, grassland, shrub, and ...

Regardless of the patchwork of regulations aimed at limiting plastic bag use in the United States, new research indicates ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet has lost more than 1,000 gigatons (Gt) of ice to calving since 1985—increasing previous estimates of mass loss by 20%. This revised number comes from a recent study of ...

Weathering of the earliest continents could have set in motion the formation of cratons, the immutable roots of continents.

New research suggests that Earth system models are underestimating the effect of low moisture levels on plants’ abilities to exchange carbon, water, and energy with the atmosphere.

An analysis of 500 watersheds found levels of organic carbon, phosphorus, and other pollutants up to 103 times higher after a ...

Yet the isotopic signature of DBC in the ocean does not match what rivers alone supply. This discrepancy suggests there are ...

With lessons learned from their first attempt, Kyoto University scientists hope a second CubeSat made of magnolia will spark ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

A new model accounting for the role of bubbles in air-sea gas exchanges suggests that ocean carbon uptake is more variable ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

Hurricane Creek is part of the Mobile Bay Watershed. Credit: Austin Lynch/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Headwater streams are usually the narrowest parts of river networks, but they make up the majority ...