Strong El Niño played a major role in warming the air above the ice, researchers report

Human interventions to harness water resources, such as reservoirs, dams, and irrigation measures, have increased water availability for much of the global population, but at the same time, swept water scarcity problems downstream

The cancellation postpones the much-anticipated Hudson Bay System Study (BaySys) involving 40 scientists from five universities across Canada

The new study shows that these individual maps leave out key details that would enable policymakers to see if they are headed in the right direction.

Researchers show how corals create rock-hard skeletons

Few people have analyzed the environmental consequences that drone technology may have if fully adopted by industries, researchers found

Columbia engineers find strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and vegetation that explain up to 30% of precipitation and surface radiation variance; study reveals large potential for improving seasonal weather predictions

"If this continues, and with increasing amounts of ice-free land from continued glacier retreat, the Antarctic Peninsula will be a much greener place in the future," researcher says

Finding could improve water supply forecasting

Recent study looked at responses to extreme temperature exposures in the same reefs over time, and found less coral bleaching in 11 of the 21 coral species studied