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These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

USGS hazard maps don’t always reflect real landslide risk in the years after wildfires. Fine-tuning assessments of vegetation recovery could help.

A new study reevaluates the use of vapor pressure deficit, or VPD, in climate models to predict increases in area burned by wildfire across the U.S. West.

Low-cost infrasound sensors, deployed in large numbers, provide a practical means of data collection near volcanoes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other geophysical phenomena.

CERN's KiCad component library of 17,000+ parts is open source, giving hardware designers worldwide free access to its PCB design resources.

Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced $1.5 billion over the next decade toward the NSF X-Labs initiative to tackle pressing scientific challenges through novel and innovative...

Year-round E15 is not a climate solution. It is not an affordability solution. And it is not a serious long-term energy strategy.

In this brief clip from a longer live virtual discussion, I answer the essential question: What is El Niño, in a physical sense, and where does it occur?

ALT: Robert Downey Jr Frustrated

Intensively managed agricultural sites show behavioral shifts of the critical zone system and subsystems thus impacting predictability.

Join the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE) team in a highly dynamic role that is foundational to staff and regional program functioning. This role is instrumental in end-to-end...

Capture reality with Polycam's LiDAR scanner & photogrammetry. Make 3D scans and download 3D models. Available on iPhone, iPad, Android and Web.

Here’s the weekend’s food truck and live music lineup at the new location, plus news about a temporary alcohol-related situation.

After a yearlong pause, the University of Idaho’s largest grant has been reinstated in full, allowing a statewide program designed to help farmers test new mark

The city used explosives in an attempt to clear a path, but untrained crews instead helped...

Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown" as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

We present a high-resolution (30 m) soil inorganic carbon map for the Continental United States in a Google Earth Engine app A machine learning model estimates Continental United States soils sto...

Low snowpack is forcing the Farmers' Union Canal to start the season at 80% delivery, just as new board members push to buy out a $20 million wastewater agreement.

Soil depth is critical to ecosystem productivity, acting as a reservoir for water, nutrients, and carbon. Deeper soils enhance water holding capacity to withstand droughts in native and agricultural s...

Loess-paleosol sequences in eolian deposits on the Snake River Plain, Idaho, western United States, preserve records of late Pleistocene to Holocene

Nathan Fillion’s big Firefly tease has been revealed as a new animated series set between the original live-action TV show and the Serenity movie — but there's a catch.

Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

“People of all ages” are at risk of getting sick, the CDC said.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Former USDA conservationist warns that staffing cuts threaten popular farm programs like EQIP and CSP, despite strong congressional support for funding.