The Trump administration is requesting the cancellation of billions of dollars in funds for space science, renewable energy, ...

Measuring plastic particles carried on Cozumel’s sea breezes and ocean currents reveals how simple physics shapes the ...

Measuring atmospheric fluxes of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide helps scientists understand Earth’s carbon cycle and other biogeochemical processes, as well as how ...

High water levels can cause swift currents that make shipping barges difficult to maneuver and can overwhelm lock and dam systems. Such conditions have become more common since 1960, according to a ...

The summer monsoon delivers rain to the rolling hills near Jawhar, a town near the western coast of India. Last January, scientists gathered to discuss the many interacting factors that have driven ...

Mosses, like this star moss in Belarus, thrive on every continent in a variety of ecosystems. Credit: ognevit, CC BY 4.0 In the plant world, mosses keep it on the down-low. Without the vascular ...

Global climate models are software behemoths, often containing more than a million lines of code. Inevitably, such complex models will contain mistakes, or “bugs.” But because model outputs are widely ...

Scientists have long known that water waves generate infrasound, but now they can identify individual breaking waves in recordings. Credit: Emiliano Arano, Pexels “It’s a good thing we can’t hear it ...

Asian megadeltas, including the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, Irrawaddy, Chao Phraya, Mekong, and Red River deltas, are home to millions of people and are vital for regional food security. However, these ...

The researchers found more than 500 pieces of opaque black “space glass” in varying shapes in Brazil. Credit: Álvaro Crósta For the first time in South America and only the sixth time in history, ...

The Rubin Observatory sits at 2,647 meters (8,684 feet) above sea level at Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek ...

Data from the New Horizons spacecraft showed Arrokoth to have a red coloring. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Far from the Sun lurk icy ...