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Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such as atmospheric rivers—by 2100, with implications for future ...

Reflections from a road trip to Mono Lake and the Owens Valley, the northernmost reaches of Southern California.

Water treatment is expensive. It uses a lot of energy and produces its own waste that gets disposed of at a hefty price.

Everyone knows what a river is, but do you know about the concept of an atmospheric river? The majority of water vapor ...

This story appears in the spring 2025 issue of UC San Diego Magazine as “Taking Flight.” ...

The 120-mile Tijuana River flows from Baja California into the United States and discharges millions of gallons of wastewater ...

The 120-mile Tijuana River flows from Baja California into the United States and discharges millions of gallons of wastewater ...

The storm that struck Western Maryland was fed by an atmospheric river moving across the Southeast, which experts describe as a conveyor belt of concentrated moisture that dumped more than six ...

This atmospheric river of moisture is not a new phenomenon, but its name is, having been adopted into the meteorology canon after being first proposed in 1994. Similar to rivers running along the ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Joe by emailing [email protected] An atmospheric river deluged parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast United States this week, triggering ...