NASA scientists have uncovered significant changes in the global water cycle over the past two decades, largely driven by ...

The outlook for rare earths is supported by strong supply and demand fundamentals as the world heads into a new economic era ...

The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent ...

For more than a century, nations have measured societal gains in terms of economic growth. But a new review published in the ...

A recent Land Trust for Santa Barbara County report quantifies the economic value of the county’s natural lands and waters and ecosystem services.

The U.S. Geological Survey will be conducting low-level helicopter survey flights over over norther Routt County and parts of ...

While the United States has an abundance of natural resources, it risks coming up short in two vital areas: rare-earth minerals and ... who could use that water. "There is a growing demand for ...

"If we want to predict the effects of climate change on Earth's water resources, we need data showing how the hydrologic cycle will respond at a small scale where we can define mechanisms ...

The Moon and asteroids are at the top of the mission list for a number of agencies, while others will focus on exploration to ...

The buritis, or moriche palms, are fighting for their lives in the streambed now lined with scorched earth. For two years now ...

Our present condition is precarious because world population continues to grow while habitable areas of Earth are shrinking due to effects of climate change ...

Mark Twain once remarked that “Whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over.” Fresh water is a very precious and ...