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Hot air holds more moisture than cold air. That simple truth, while familiar to anyone who’s used a blow dryer or walked ...
ISRO and NASA collaborated on a joint Earth-observing mission, NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR). The radar provides ...
A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...
Earth’s soil is drying up. It could be irreversible. The losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans.
Monsoon season is underway. Meteorologists have identified a pattern that brings hope to those longing for a lush summer this ...
A new partnership between NASA and India’s ISRO is set to revolutionize our understanding of the planet’s surface with the NISAR satellite. With a hefty $1.5 billion price tag, this unprecedented ...
Earth may have hit a point of irreversible moisture loss in its soil as a result of climate change, according to a new study. More than 2,614 gigatonnes of moisture was lost from 2000 to 2016. The ...
A man walks across the dry bed of Lake Ahmad Sar in India in 2015. The total amount of water in Earth’s lakes, rivers and soils has drastically dropped since the turn of the century, a new study ...
Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward, Earth’s inner core in changing shape.