Transpiration, the process of plants releasing water vapor, is crucial for plant cooling but can lead to dehydration in extreme heat. Continuously high nighttime temperatures exacerbate plant stress ...

Straighter, smoother streams flow more violently than those that meander due to a reduction in friction. Areas with steeper ...

Exciting new research is investigating how boobies (birds of the genus Sula) may be able to reduce the potentially lethal ...

Thursday's rain was a highly localized event. The highest impact was only felt over a 5-to-10 mile area south of Boston.

Imagine waking up one morning to find that every drop of water on Earth—oceans, lakes, rivers, puddles, even the dew on grass ...

Warming ocean temperatures and warmer air mean there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere to fuel extreme downpours like ...

NASA astronomers have confirmed what may be the greatest discovery of the era. They found a significant reservoir of water that was hidden in the cosmos, and that surrounds a quasa ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has allowed scientists to determine, for the first time, the pH level of the ocean beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus — and it turns out to be highly alkaline, ...