In the face of climate change and worsening cycles of drought, California water managers have been increasingly focused on the precise tracking of water resources. Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is ...

On the last weekend of August 2011, Stephen Farrington of Stockbridge took his family to stay at his parents’ house in Burlington ahead of Tropical Storm Irene. At the time, his major concern was the ...

A new study finds rivers and streams at higher latitudes contributing as much methane, a potent greenhouse gas, to the atmosphere as warmer waters in the tropics. The surrounding habitat, not ...

Like cows and humans, even our rivers can be gassy. A “Nature” paper co-authored by researchers at the Yale School of the Environment last month quantified the methane contributions of all the world’s ...