The Andes mountain range, stretching over 8,900 kilometers along South America's western edge, serves as the continent's ...

Pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to study the freezing process in excised leaf tissues of several Solanum species. The amount of liquid water in the partially frozen leaf ...

Tidewater glaciers, like those seen by millions of tourists in Alaska's Glacier Bay, flow down from the land and terminate at the ocean, where warming water and air temperatures can expedite melting, ...

Concerns that melting water would speed up the decline of Greenland's ice sheet have been allayed by new research which shows the lubricating effect of water beneath glaciers will not significantly ...

An extremely active wet season is helping to alleviate a decades-long drought. It's getting hot out West -- and those scorching temperatures are rapidly thawing the incredible amounts of snowpack that ...

Bethan Davies received funding for this work from the National Geographic and Rolex, from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and from the Grantham Institute. The year 2019 concludes a decade of ...

The Atlantic Ocean currents are slowing down, according to a new study led by a University of Maryland researcher. Specifically, the study found the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) ...