Earth Sciences

Climate is changing, forced out of the range of the past million years by levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not seen in the Earth...

Dieses Buch berichtet über ein ebenso spannendes wie aktuelles Thema an der Schnittstelle zwischen naturwissenschaftlicher Grundlagenforschung und ...

This book is an educational novella composed from diverse encounters of walking-with a glacier, offering the reader possibilities for wilding ecolo...

This book discusses indigenous practices and obstacles faced by farmers conducting shifting cultivation (jhum) in North-east India and suggests met...

Many factors contribute to variability in Earth's climate on a range of timescales, from seasons to decades. Natural climate variability arises fro...

The U.S. Gulf Coast provides a valuable setting to study deeply connected natural and human interactions and feedbacks that have led to a complex, ...

Water of appropriate quantity and quality is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food, energy, and industrial production for any society and is...

This book offers comprehensive insights into the management of agroforestry for livelihood security and sustainable development in the tropics, add...

The United States is an important food producer globally, in part because of its abundance of agriculturally productive soils. However, management ...

The ocean is central to the health of the planet and the well-being of human societies, but ongoing depletion, disruption, and pollution threaten i...

New research opportunities to advance hydrologic sciences promise a better understanding of the role of water in the Earth system that could help i...

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Water Resources, Ocean, and Environmental Engineering (ICWROEE 2024). It s...

According to the United Nations, three out of five people will be living in cities worldwide by the year 2030. The United States continues to exper...

With the increasing frequency of natural and human-induced disasters and the increasing magnitude of their consequences, a clear need exists for go...

Solar irradiance is a vital source of energy input for the Earth's climate system and its variability has the potential to mitigate or exacerbate a...

U.S. Arctic waters north of the Bering Strait and west of the Canadian border encompass a vast area that is usually ice covered for much of the yea...

Development of Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources in the Appalachian Basin is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council...

The sea ice surrounding Antarctica has increased in extent and concentration from the late 1970s, when satellite-based measurements began, until 20...