Tag: water
As climate change parches the Southwest, here’s a better way to...
Daniel Craig McCool, University of Utah
The Colorado River is a vital lifeline for...
Ancient groundwater: Why the water you’re drinking may be thousands of...
Marissa Grunes, Harvard University; Alan Seltzer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Kevin M. Befus, University of Arkansas
Communities that...
As Colorado River Basin states confront water shortages, it’s time to...
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
The U.S. government announced its first-ever water shortage declaration for the Colorado River on...
Surfing makes its Olympic debut – and the waves should be...
Sally Warner, Brandeis University
For the first time, surfing is on the Olympic stage.
The surfing...
Knowing how heat and humidity affect your body can help you...
JohnEric W. Smith, Mississippi State University
Less than a month into North America’s official summer, heat waves are blistering...
‘Megadrought’ along border strains US-Mexico water relations
Robert Gabriel Varady, University of Arizona; Andrea K. Gerlak, University of Arizona, and Stephen Paul Mumme, Colorado State University
Yellowstone is losing its snow as the climate warms, and that...
Bryan Shuman, University of Wyoming
When you picture Yellowstone National Park and its neighbor, Grand Teton, the snowcapped peaks...
Wildfires are contaminating drinking water systems, and it’s more widespread than...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
More than 58,000 fires scorched the United States last year, and 2021 is on...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
