The end of 2024 marks the 24th year of the southwestern United States’s “megadrought”—a type of drought that often last ...

A Historical Perspective on Drought Looking back at historical records, California has faced significant dry spells that have ...

The Pliocene epoch, which lasted from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago, was a consequential time in Earth's history. The ...

This study explores the paleoclimate changes around the 4 ka BP period in the central Qaidam Basin (QB), assessing the differences in spectral characteristics and organic composition of salt lake ...

Jan. 16, 2025 — 4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now ...

A pioneering climate scientist says global heating is accelerating. Others say we can still reach climate goals ...

Scientists and schoolteachers have teamed up to design training and classroom materials that help educators understand and ...

Because CO 2 persists in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, further warming and sea level rise are locked in. This well-established theory, together with observations of the air, water, land and ...

Mineralogy is the study of minerals, the building blocks of rocks, which are naturally-occurring, crystalline solids with a set chemical make-up. This includes the study of the chemical ...