A new study reveals that gold mining in the Amazon alters the soil and dries out the land, preventing forest regeneration.

Ice cores, tree rings, and satellite data converge on a striking truth: Earth’s rapid changes today are unlike anything seen ...

Texas A&M AgriLife’s Binayak Mohanty named 2025 American Geophysical Union Fellow for pioneering soil moisture and hydrology ...

Scientists have successfully simulated the massive thunderstorm a wildfire once created, revealing how such fiery tempests ...

On September 5, 2020, California's Creek Fire grew so severe that it began producing its own weather system. The fire's ...

Earth’s landmasses are holding onto a lot less water than they used to — and this loss is not just due to melting ice sheets. Terrestrial water storage, which includes water in underground aquifers, ...

An astonishingly high-resolution satellite that launched today will soon map changes on Earth’s surface in unprecedented detail — tracking everything from sinking croplands to crumbling ice sheets and ...

The sky abounds with aerosols, tiny particles with large sway over Earth’s temperature. A new NASA visualization reveals how these airborne particles swirl through the atmosphere. The agency’s Goddard ...

Over the past 40 years, atmospheric rivers carrying moisture from the tropics have migrated between 6 and 10 degrees closer ...