A new study reveals how an atmospheric river led to more devastation after two earthquakes hit Türkiye and Syria, ...

Sometimes rivers split into branches in unusual ways, reflecting the complexity of Earth's water system on land and how much we still must learn about it.

Like heat waves, these periods of high atmospheric demand for water can damage crops and ecosystems and increase pressure on ...

Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how ...

New seismic images of the Lucky Strike slow-spreading segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show thick lower crust at the center ...

A team of dozens spent weeks in the Rwenzori Mountains capturing drone photography, GPS coordinates, and ground-penetrating ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Wells overpumping groundwater could be forcing rivers to seep underground, a new study shows. Regions with intensive ...

Coal-fired power plants in India—responsible for generating 73.4% of the country’s electricity —are bad for the country’s ...

During a voyage off the east coast of Africa, researchers collected detailed measurements of massive swirling currents that ...

Two valleys extending away from a giant crater suggest that upcoming Artemis missions are more likely to sample ancient lunar ...

Wild animals expend 76,000 gigajoules of energy—the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of monsoons or floods—shaping our ...