Eutrophication and oxygen depletion are well-known threats to the ecological balance of the Baltic Sea, which is increasingly ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

Subglacial water in Antarctica reshapes sea level rise predictions and reveals ancient drainage flow patterns.

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is picked up at the nearest station by a strange adult woman named Sakaki who guides him to an unexpected ...

The vast Antarctic Ice Sheet holds more than half of Earth's freshwater. In several places around the continent, the ice extends over the ocean, where it forms large floating shelves. Observations ...

The 2013-14 winter season, which came during historic drought conditions in California, inhibited salmonids from reaching ...

Throughflow - Water flows downhill within the soil. Groundwater flow - Water flowing slowly through rocks towards the sea. Percolation - The downward movement of water from the soil into the rock ...

making the water cycle more unpredictable. For billions of people, meltwater flows are changing, causing floods, droughts, landslides and sea level rise. Countless communities and ecosystems are ...