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Hydrology
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Dirty Trees Shape Earth’s Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles
Researchers peer into precipitation partitioning—the process by which plants and the organic matter coating them help shape the hydrologic cycle.
Posted inScience Updates
Linking Critical Zone Water Storage and Ecosystems
The geology and the structure of Earth’s critical zone control subsurface moisture storage potential and determine the resilience of forest and river ecosystems to drought.
Posted inResearch Spotlights
World’s Deepest Freshwater Cave May Be a Kilometer Deep
The Czech Republic’s Hranice Abyss is more than twice as deep as researchers thought.
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Monitoring Ecosystem Health in India’s Food Basket
A new critical zone observatory in India’s Ganga Basin helps researchers and farmers understand and improve the ways that human activities shape environmental processes.
Posted inEditors' Vox
Water Challenges of Megacities
After attending a groundwater conference this summer in Shenzhen, China, Water Resources Research editor Jean Bahr reports back and summarizes the water management challenges posed by large cities.
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Celebrating Hydrology Research Though 50 Years of WRR
The legacy of Water Resources Research provides a strong scientific foundation for the hydrology community to rise to the challenges of sustainable water resources management