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Blanket bogs in the Scottish Highlands store vast amounts of carbon.
Rounds of heavy rain in the U.S. Southwest flooded rivers and rapidly raised New Mexico’s second-largest reservoir.
The San Juan River has carved deep, improbably curvy meanders into the desert landscape.
The sight of an icy skull-like visage on the Antarctic island could make one’s blood run cold.
The Antarctic iceberg made a relatively quick exit from the Weddell Sea, only to slow at the edge of a…
Human activities have become intertwined with how water is distributed across the continents. A new study brings their effects into…
The ice reached its third-lowest maximum extent since satellite observations began.
Drought and an ailing aquifer were major topics of conversation when NASA scientists visited with farmers in the Texas High…
Satellite records show Arctic sea ice covering less of the ocean in both winter and summer.
Dissolved organic matter and suspended sediment mingle in the southernmost extent of James Bay.
A new map of the terrain beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet links hundreds of valleys that previous maps missed or…
While the sea ice melt season has lengthened dramatically in most of the satellite era, the trend unexpectedly stabilized around…
Snow drought and unusually warm temperatures in the Colorado Basin in 2026 helped drive down reservoir water storage in the…
In summer 2026, a substantial iceberg calved from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland and swiftly drifted into Nares Strait, colliding…
One narrowing icefall remains the linchpin for the Alpine glacier—and it may not be long for this world.
The meandering Congaree River sustains towering forest ecosystems and fashions oxbow lakes as it shifts across its floodplain.
Back-to-back winter storms in August 2026 brought snowfall to northern Chile, from the Andes to near the Pacific coast.
A large iceberg, observed in summer 2026, had drifted more than 1,000 kilometers south from the northeastern Greenland bay where…
