Clouds build up in the early afternoon and gusty winds push in every direction. The skies darken and then comes the rain — ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions of water vapor in the atmosphere, like a river in the sky. These systems gather ...

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to stand under a sky that suddenly turns into a river? For millions living along the West ... Read more The post What Atmospheric Rivers Mean for the West ...

Scientists constructed a 100-year history of acidity in the Gulf of Maine. They expected coastal variability but were ...

Clouds build up in the early afternoon and gusty winds push in every direction. The skies darken and then comes the rain — ...

The project is the first major restoration effort at the park and entails removing about 3,200 linear feet of riprap ...

More information: Mariana J. Webb et al, Wet Antecedent Soil Moisture Increases Atmospheric River Streamflow Magnitudes Nonlinearly, Journal of Hydrometeorology (2025). DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-24-0078.1 ...

California’ s Central Valley- one of the nation’ s most critical agricultural regions and home to over 1.3 million people- is prone to flooding. The research, published June 4 in the Journal of Flood ...

Tucked along California’s northern coastline, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve alongside Redwood National Park and Del ...

Bodega Head, a rocky peninsula that juts out into the Pacific, offers some of the most spectacular coastal views in Northern ...

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