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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 ...
"Ice in the rest of the universe has long been considered a snapshot of liquid water – that is, a disordered arrangement fixed in place. Our findings show this is not entirely true." ...
Tropical Storm Chantal dumped as much as a foot of rain across portions of central North Carolina Sunday into early Monday ...
The City of Lodi will begin accepting bids from companies later this month for the removal of contaminated soil found underneath a downtown office building. The Lodi City Council on its consent ...
While climate change is not solely responsible for causing the recent flash floods across the country, here's how it does ...
Scientists found low-density amorphous ice in space isn’t fully random - it hides tiny crystals, reshaping our understanding ...
Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...