In a landmark study that spans more than a century of rainfall records and brings together classical statistics with cutting-edge...

In the world of geology, few tasks are as fundamental—or as laborious—as examining rock thin sections under the microscope. These...

In the shallows of the Pacific Ocean, a squishy, translucent creature drifts through the water like a living question mark....

When people search Google for information about heat waves and floods, they tend to do so in the very years...

In the summer of 2021, catastrophic rainfall over western Germany pushed the Rhine to heights not seen in generations, submerging...

A quarter-century of teaching groundwater scientists how to extract decision-relevant information from numerical models has prompted one of the field's...

When waves break along a shoreline, they do more than throw spray into the air. They physically push the ocean's...

In the flood-prone delta lands of Odisha, India, where the Mahanadi, Brahmani, and Baitarani rivers converge on the Bay of...

When two buildings stand close enough to collide during an earthquake, the consequences can be severe—and, according to a new...

A team of Brazilian researchers has unveiled ForestCalc, a free, open-source web application that transforms raw forest inventory data into...