As teams grow, new Ph.D. graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers

Stalagmite record reveals 1- to 13-year droughts in NW Yucatán from 871 to 1021 CE, a time of profound Maya cultural change.

A network of proxy records shows western North American hydroclimate and Pacific sea surface temperature co-evolved during the Holocene The western North America became wetter while the eastern e...

Projected precipitation decreases due to anthropogenic climate change will have serious consequences for the millions of households in Central America that rely on rainfed agriculture. However, a sign...

The northern African summer monsoon was unaffected by global cooling at the end of the Pliocene 3 million years ago.

• Cloud feedbacks, particularly the cloud shortwave radiation term, dominate the climate sensitivity of GISS-E2.1-G. • We have set the stage to eliminate some of the climate sensitivity and model para...

Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up, with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.

President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. What are the long-term impacts f...

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While the amount saved through federal lease cancellations by the Trump administration has decreased nationwide, New York's contribution has increased. Here's the latest.

It was back in 2020 and COVID lockdowns that ACKMA, the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association, decided to lead a volunteer, citizen science project to measure the 'baseline cave climate'. That is, to collect data for the first time for tourist caves which were temporarily closed at the start of the pandemic. Move forward almost five years, and cave climate data is still being collected from some of the original participating caves.