In recent years, extreme weather events caused enormous damage, especially hydro-meteorological hazards such as floods (e.g., 2002 in Central Europe), tsunamis (e.g., 2004 in the Indian Ocean) and hurricanes (e.g., 2005 Hurricane Katrina in the United States). The...
Unraveling the mystery behind the role of microbial biofilms in turning barren, deglaciated land into a living landscape.
Peter Brewitt and Chelsea Colwyn discuss the legal and policy issues of non-jurisdictional dams
Researchers demonstrate the use of aerial drone photography, hydraulic modeling, and simulated rock blasting, to evaluate velocity barriers that prevent steelhead migrations.
Researchers at the International Water Management Institute put forward a new conceptual thinking to achieve sustainable, socially acceptable, resilient, and equitable resource use.
How do we effectively evaluate and employ zoning and building codes in flood prone areas to minimize damage?
Irrigators’ decisions to follow best management practices or implement a policy change, to accept a technology, or even to exit farming, all affect society.
Agricultural, urban and industrial activities have dramatically increased aquatic nitrogen and phosphorus pollution (eutrophication), threatening water quality and biotic integrity from headwater streams to coastal areas world‐wide.
How can we better regulate unconventional oil and gas extraction to protect groundwater from contamination?
How water quality standards for pesticides affect the classification of the chemical status of rivers.
New theory suggests gravity is not a fundamental force
Quantum entanglement visualized for the first time ever
Scientists take a closer look at rare particles called hypernuclei
French WEST reactor breaks record in nuclear fusion
Higgs boson may be driving the Universe’s expansion
Researchers take a glimpse at the structure of rare tetraquarks
Black hole images deliver a deathblow to alternative theory of gravity
An anti-inflammatory peptide may hold the key to low-back pain relief
CERN scientists search for new physics in unusual energy patterns linked to hidden particles
String theory provides a new take on the expansion of the Universe