Wildfires affect watersheds in myriad ways, from reducing evapotranspiration to changing soil repellencies, but new research suggests impacts on snowpack and runoff are the most significant.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
A 3-year project documents how climate change is affecting the sequestration of decades-old mining by-products in Canadian lakes.Read More »Ocean Sciences
The Surging Waters report shows how science empowers us to mitigate the impacts on people and property in communities around the United States.Read More »Climate Change
With so few long-term climate data sets, the importance of the sea ice record is hard to overstate, and 2019 now ranks among the lowest ice minimums in the 40-year satellite record. Read More »
The northern Bering Sea is experiencing record-setting low winter sea ice levels, which are impacting plankton, fish, and other animals in the region.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
A first look at data from NASA’s laser altimeter mission ICESat-2 reveals very high resolution 3-D profiles of ice on land and sea, forests, and shallow bodies of water.Read More »
