The ground beneath our feet is exhaling. Steadily and without pause, through a process called soil respiration, plant roots and microbes release carbon dioxide (CO 2) into the atmosphere. This ...

Groundwater supplies 50% of the world’s drinking water and 25% of the water used globally in agriculture. Locally, especially in arid regions of Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere, these figures ...

Satellite image of the Rubaya mining site in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 24 February 2026. There are disputed reports of another ...

Mining lithium from brine currently involves evaporating water in large pools to concentrate the lithium, requiring abundant water and land. Credit: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ...

Alfvén waves are fundamental to the dynamics of space plasmas. New space missions, sophisticated rocket campaigns, and advances in radar networks and computer modeling have grown our understanding of ...

Though 77% of Antarctica's coastline remains stable, the unstable portions have lost large amounts of ice over the past three decades. Credit: NASA/GSFC, Public Domain Research & Developments is a ...

In recent years, the international community has made progress in slowing increases in the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and in acknowledging the scale of methane leaks from oil and gas facilities.

At a markup meeting this morning, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation passed the Weather Act, a bipartisan legislation package designed to improve NOAA’s forecasting ...

New research tallies the effects of gas- and diesel-burning vehicle emissions on the climate, as well as on human health. Together, the emissions cause more than 200,000 premature deaths each year.

Clouds hover over radar equipment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains Central Facility near Lamont, Okla. Credit: Nicki Hickmon, Argonne National ...

Sometimes, rivers suddenly jump their banks, abandoning channels and washing over floodplains in search of new paths. These rare events, called avulsions, can cause catastrophic flooding and threaten ...

Atmospheric mercury chemistry has evolved over time due to changes in atmospheric composition, especially for changing concentrations of bromine radicals, hydroxyl radicals, and ozone. The shifts in ...