Famiglietti agreed that “soil moisture depletion is playing a bigger role in sea level rise than we previously thought.” The biggest drops in soil moisture during that period occurred in large ...

For decades, Southern California's war on smog has focused on strategies to reduce pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks. But one of the main drivers of lung-aggravating smog may be right ...

So great is the decline in soil moisture that it has outpaced Greenland's melting ice sheets in its contribution to sea level rise and changes to the wobble in Earth's rotation. That's according ...