Climate change and creaky infrastructure were blamed Friday for the scale of the impact from floods tearing through New York City when remnants of Hurricane Ida swept across the US northeast, killing at least 47 people.
Environment
Sep 3, 2021
8
29
The sunshine is back and the ice has melted. But more than a week after a deep freeze across the South, many communities are still grappling with getting clean water to their residents.
Environment
Feb 25, 2021
1
5
Southern cities slammed by winter storms that left millions without power for days have traded one crisis for another: Busted water pipes ruptured by record-low temperatures created shortages of clean drinking water, shut ...
Environment
Feb 20, 2021
68
23
About 7 million people in Texas—a quarter of the nation's second-most populous state—were told to boil their water or stop using it entirely as homeowners, hospitals, and businesses grappled with broken water mains and ...
Environment
Feb 18, 2021
1
6
Researchers have advanced a new way to see into the ocean's depths, establishing an approach to detect algae and measure key properties using light. A paper published in Applied Optics reports using a laser-based tool, lidar, ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2020
0
10
Variation in lobster molt timing has been increasing in recent years, and is related to changing ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Maine, according to a new University of Maine study—one of the first to provide a quantified ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2019
0
22
Seaside New England is known for rocky shores, seafood shacks, chance whale sightings and, in recent months, lots of gooey, tentacled blobs.
Ecology
Sep 15, 2019
0
34
New research connects recent changes in the movement of North Atlantic right whales to decreased food availability and rising temperatures in Gulf of Maine's deep waters. Right whales have been showing up in unexpected places ...
Ecology
May 29, 2019
1
126
Monitoring concentrations of dissolved organic carbon in Maine lakes before and after severe rainstorms could inform management strategies to help ensure consistent, high-quality drinking water, according to University of ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 17, 2019
0
10
A Southwest Research Institute-led team discovered evidence of abundant water-bearing minerals on the surface of the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu. Using early spectral data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft orbiting ...
Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2019
2
19
