A decade of research since the Deepwater Horizon disaster has revealed how sunlight—its importance long understated in oil spill science—substantially alters petroleum floating at the sea surface.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
We are and will continue to plant more street trees, urban groves and informal clusters of trees in our parks and green spaces. Treetopia has begun.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
A new study uses the planetary boundaries concept to formulate an approach to water management that considers both global and local limits to water cycle modifications.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Streams that flow down mountainsides are more turbulent than those that run along forest floors, which leads to faster gas exchange between water and air. Read More »Ocean Sciences
Gulf Research Program executive director Lauren Alexander Augustine discusses the impact science can have on communities when given money and time. Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
A cross-disciplinary consortium of scientists works to monitor droughts that develop in as little as 2 weeks—whose frequencies are predicted to increase with climate change.Read More »Natural Hazards
Microbial genomics techniques came of age following the Deepwater Horizon spill, offering researchers unparalleled insights into how ecosystems respond to such environmental disasters.Read More »Ocean Sciences
At a critical moment in the effort to end one of the world’s worst oil spills, one scientist holed up in his office and pulled an all-nighter to calculate the well’s aquifer support.Read More »
Water samples from 25 rivers in central Cuba are dominated by signs of rock weathering rather than fertilizer runoff, researchers working at Cuban and American institutions show.Read More »
