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Under severe drought, most of the world's monitored rivers take a larger share of their flow from water seeping in from below ground, according to a global analysis of stream gauges published Oct. 5,…
The Met Office on Oct. 5 named the eight trees, butterflies and flowers whose spring timing in southeast England shifts most as temperatures rise, the first results of a pilot it runs with the…
Two researchers have built a predictor of how much of the Arctic Ocean will be covered by ice a season ahead, using nothing but the historical record of the ice itself. There is no physics in it and…
Researchers at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the Met Office Hadley Centre have published an evaluation of the river flow forecasting scheme that has driven Great Britain's monthly water…
The trade winds over the tropical Pacific normally push west, piling warm water up near Indonesia. For ten days in November 2023, a patch of them turned around and blew hard toward the east. A…
Order a microplastic from a catalog and a sphere arrives. It is smooth, round and the same material all the way around. It is also nothing like the thing it stands in for. Plastic in the world is not…
In March 2024, the German research vessel Maria S. Merian held station over deep water south of Gran Canaria and began lowering sample bottles. The deepest one closed at 2,720 meters, in water that…
A study from Lanzhou University reports that whether land has grown wetter or drier since the coldest point of the last ice age has depended on latitude, and projects that continued warming is likely…
The Food and Drug Administration closed its outbreak investigation into recalled iceberg lettuce on Oct. 2 and reported that two of the samples it collected in Mexico tested positive for Cyclospora,…
Scientists at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory report that a seasonal forecast system predicts with high skill how much sunlight will reach the southwestern United States in spring. They…
A 4,000-km field survey of the arid and semi-arid grasslands of northern China reports that plant and soil-microbe diversity do not thin out smoothly as the land gets drier. Instead the survey finds…
US natural gas production reached a record high in July 2026, the US Energy Information Administration reported in its latest Natural Gas Monthly, released Sept. 30, 2026. Gross withdrawals, the full…