Diminished rainfall, combined with soaring temperatures, has jeopardized the food security and energy supplies of millions of people in the region.

Stanford hydrologist Newsha Ajami, an appointee to California’s regional water quality board, discusses how wildfires affect water quality, and how we can better prepare for and react to the challenges.

Team investigated the chemical’s interaction with symbiotic microorganisms that inhabit coral reefs.

Natural ecosystems provide critical services for people as well as biodiversity, including regulating water quality.

Biological oceanographer breaks down the linkages between human impacts on the ocean and their effects on human systems

A new study from UW–Madison scientists shows bacteria’s critical role at the beginning of soil formation.

Research on global biodiversity has long assumed that present-day biodiversity patterns reflect present-day factors, namely contemporary climate and human activities.

Technology developed by Texas A&M researchers has been successfully tested by several Texas utilities, and is now being tested by California utilities.

A parasitic plant has found a way to circumvent an evolutionary arms race with the host plants from which it steals nutrients, allowing the parasite to thrive on a variety of agriculturally important plants.

When the railroad tycoon Edward H. Harriman fell ill from stress and too much work, his doctors recommended that he take a sea cruise.