Cornell’s CU GeoData project team brings together engineering and earth science students to design and deploy low-cost ...

NASA’s new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed has begun science operations. Launched Jan. 31 on a minimum three-year ...

Developed by professors Mohamed Eddaoudi and Khaled Salama at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), the prototype device is designed to be stuck into the soil like ...

A wheat field near Elberta, Utah, just became the most technically sophisticated wheat field on Earth, thanks to a talented ...

The warming climate has not lead to an expected increase in atmospheric moisture over arid and semi-arid regions of the world. The finding, which has surprised scientists, indicates that some regions ...

With its antenna now spinning at full speed, NASA’s new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory has successfully re-tested its science instruments and generated its first global maps, a key ...

From major volcanic eruptions, to supercharged earthquakes to dedaly wildfires and floods, Earth's systems are going through ...