A new study suggests that reductions in agricultural water use will probably play the biggest role in limiting future water shortages.Read More »Climate Change
Eutrophication not only is a present-day anthropogenic phenomenon in the southern Baltic but also occurred over the past few millennia, with cyanobacterial blooms during times of climate warming.Read More »Climate Change
With so many eyes in the sky, residents living downstream from dams now have many ways to see—and prepare for—potential dangers. Read More »Science Policy & Funding
Democrats and Republicans on the House Science Committee sparred about the best ways to deal with climate change but mostly acknowledged the threat.Read More »
A prototype model allows scientists to investigate how wind eddies and other atmospheric phenomena may affect the prevalence of heat waves and cold snaps in the Southern Hemisphere.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Researchers modeled over 200,000 glaciers and found that mountainous regions in Asia contain significantly less glacial ice than previously estimated.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Sea level trends in different regions of the ocean caused by both natural and man-made changes in the atmosphere can be partially hidden by internal random processes intrinsic to the ocean. Read More »
