Hydrology/Water Resources

Hybrid systems of floating solar panels and hydropower plants may hold the technical potential to produce a significant portion of the electricity generated annually across the globe, according to an analysis by researchers at the U.S.…

Database comprising 14,425 North American watershedsCredit: Lino Cipresso To better document the repercussions of climate change on regional water resources, researchers from around the world now have access to HYSETS, a database of…

Credit: (Image by Alex Hu from Pixabay) Researchers from Princeton will help lead a $1 million project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will use artificial intelligence to simulate the nation's natural groundwater…

A new study found the spread of ghost forests across a coastal region of North Carolina may have implications for global warming. Ghost forests are areas where rising seas have killed off freshwater-dependent trees, leaving dead or dying…

Discovery of a topological change of an interfacial hydrodynamics by a partial miscibility and creating a cross-disciplinary discipline of chemical thermodynamics and interfacial hydrodynamicsCredit: Yuichiro Nagatsu/TUAT, Takahiko Ban/…

Droughts are, after floods and storms, the costliest natural hazard. The expected increa,se in the frequency and intensity of drought events due to climate change reinforces the necessity to improve the quality and reliability of…

Researchers from RMIT University have developed an eco-friendly zero-cement concrete, which all but eliminates corrosionCredit: Copyright Museums Victoria, Photographer: Rob Zugaro Researchers from RMIT University have…

Credit: University of Saskatchewan Conversion of large swaths of land to uniform tree plantations and single-crop species may lead to unintended consequences for the water cycle, putting ecosystems at greater risk for fires,…

WASHINGTON--Scientists have spotted a once-in-a-century climate anomaly during World War I that likely increased mortality during the war and the influenza pandemic in the years that followed. Well-documented torrential rains and…

Over 15 million years, weathering rocks reduced carbon dioxide levels and cooled EarthCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Yuem Park The Greenland ice sheet owes its existence to the growth of an arc of islands in Southeast Asia --…

Meteorologists track hurricanes over the oceans, forecasting where and when landfall might occur so residents can prepare for disaster before it strikes. What if they could do the same thing for droughts? Stanford scientists have now…

Rutgers study is the first to model impact of 5G radiation "leakage" on forecastingCredit: Mohammad Yousefvand Upcoming 5G wireless networks that will provide faster cell phone service may lead to inaccurate weather forecasts,…

UMass Amherst research simulates dramatic climate impacts from higher Antarctic meltCredit: Dan Lowenstein © WHOI AMHERST, Mass. - In a new climate modeling study that looked at the impacts of accelerated ice melt from the…

A century of observations reveals increasing likelihood of continental-scale compound dry-hot extremes The frequency of combined droughts and heatwaves - which are more devastating when they occur in unison - has substantially increased…

A small subpopulation of polar bears lives on what used to be thick, multiyear sea ice far above the Arctic Circle. The roughly 300 to 350 bears in Kane Basin, a frigid channel between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland, make up…

Credit: Carla Atkinson LAWRENCE -- A major new research project headquartered at the University of Kansas will investigate how intermittent streams -- the half of the world's streams that flow only part of the year --…

Credit: Credit: Andreas Hartmann Topographically sketched catchment areas are a spatial unit based on the shapes of the earth's surface. They show how human activities and climate change influence the available quantities of water.…

Credit: York University TORONTO, Sept. 22, 2020 - Although less than one per cent of all water in the world is freshwater, it is what we drink and use for agriculture. In other words, it's vital to human survival. York…

Analysis published in Scientific Reports is based on climate models for the mid-Pliocene period, which occurred 3 million years ago and shared characteristics with present-day warmingCredit: Gabriel Marques Pontes / USP Projections…

New archaeological research presents the oldest securely dated evidence for humans in ArabiaCredit: Palaeodeserts Project Situated between Africa and Eurasia, the Arabian Peninsula is an important yet understudied region…