Water is the lifeblood of agriculture, but climate change and shifting weather patterns are straining access. Longer droughts ...

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Sea spray content in a stalagmite sheds light on how ocean currents in the Gulf Stream have changed in the past.

Overuse of groundwater has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheets.

The famously rainy state is facing longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, raising the risk of a mammoth fire that will be ...

Water demand is increasing with population growth, yet water scarcity is increasingly common amid shifting climate patterns.

Climate scientists and policymakers are gathering at the United Nations headquarters in New York for the inaugural World Day ...

"It's an indicator that something's got to change." Officials frightened by drastic transformation in Los Angeles water ...

A new study finds early humans ate tough grasses and tubers long before their teeth adapted, suggesting behavior, not biology, drove human evolution.

With nearly every step, we move above a vast underground network of fungal filaments, an ancient communication system that ...

Scientists from UC Santa Barbara and San Diego State University developed a new model to reveal how plants manage water under ...

Even a toddler knows that plants need water. It’s perhaps the first thing we learn about these green lifeforms. But how plants budget this resource varies ...