Oases gained 85,000 square miles, mostly from artificial expansion projects Oases lost 52,000 square miles from desertification and water scarcity Oases gained a net area of about 33,400 square miles, ...
WASHINGTON — Along the three coasts of the contiguous United States, a silent race unfolds. Fueled by climate change, sea levels rise faster than at any time in recent geologic history. Meanwhile, ...
WASHINGTON — Mysterious craters that first appeared in the Siberian permafrost a decade ago were caused by climate change-driven pressure changes that explosively released methane frozen underground, ...
WASHINGTON — The asteroid that struck Earth and led to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction 66 million years ago also triggered a worldwide tsunami that started as a wave more than a mile ...
WASHINGTON — 66 million years ago, the six-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid crash-landed in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and changed life on Earth forever. The reign of the dinosaurs ended, and only ...
Press registration is open for 2026 AGU Annual Meeting Press registration is now open for AGU’s 2026 annual meeting in San ...
WASHINGTON — Across its basins and thousands of meters down, the Mediterranean Sea is getting warmer and saltier. Now, a new study finds it is also doing so at a faster and faster pace. The speed-up ...
WASHINGTON — Major water reservoirs across the continental United States are experiencing longer, more severe, and more variable periods of low storage than several decades ago, a new study reports.
Recent heat waves in Europe have been intensified by the greenhouse gases emitted since nations committed to limit global warming under the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, according to a new study in ...
WASHINGTON — Scientific datasets should be recognized as foundational for research ecosystems and society: long-lived resources that fuel the research ecosystem, support decisions in communities and ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico —The Great Lakes in the Midwest U.S. comprise the largest unfrozen freshwater stores on Earth. But too much of a good thing can create problems. New research using the most ...
Earth’s poles are rising by 0.5 to 1 millimeters per year, slowly un-squashing our planet’s slightly flattened, ...