The losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans. But ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

A significant body of research published in the journal Science highlights the persistent decline of soil moisture across various continents, driven primarily by human activities that disrupt the ...

A major role in this is played by the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which is the second largest ... but also by the thermal expansion of water volume due to rising temperatures and the oceans ...

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar ... or marine-borne animals like shrimp or molluscs, from other continents reaching Antarctica. As the ACC slows and weakens, there is ...

Global sea-level rise is largely fed by the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, but it is also ... When water leaves the continents, it ends up in the oceans, Famiglietti said.

The ACC works as a barrier to invasive species, like rafts of southern bull kelp that ride the currents, or marine-borne animals like shrimp or mollusks, from other continents reaching ... Pacific and ...