A postdoctoral position examining plant physiological responses to environmental variability is available in the lab of Dr. Nick Smith in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebrask...

Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists say

More water vapor means more rocket fuel for extreme rain — so this record is not good news

Dry forests of the western United States evolved with frequent, spatially extensive, low-severity fires, followed by a century of fire exclusion. R...

Recharge Oscillator (RO) perfect-model experiments test whether slow, forced changes can be detected from finite ENSO time series Observed ENSO amplitude, period, and asymmetry trends since 1955 ...

Following last week’s news about changes in the capacity of the Core Team, and yesterday’s announcement of the Board of Directors’ resolution on the Strategic Renewal of The Carpentries Curriculum Por...

Build the agentic layer of national science. Three full-time positions at UNM CARC, with partner teams at Arizona and UNC-CH/RENCI.

In this role, you will:Lead the oversight of a dendrochronology laboratory in collaboration with the Director, including the mentoring, training,...

Wildfires during 2020–2021 killed giant sequoias at unprecedented rates in California’s Sierra Nevada. Dixon et al. estimate prescribed burns saved nearly 2,000 giant sequoias, and that broader treatm...

Twenty years ago, climate denial was a problem of the right. Today, AI denial is a problem of the left. And the consequences could be even more disastrous.

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

Wildfires are among the most pressing environmental challenges of the 21st century, intensified by the accumulation of forest fuels after a century of fire suppression policies. Although fuel-reductio...

Much of the Colorado River's water is used for agriculture. A new study shows 46% of the water that is diverted is used to grow hay to feed cattle.

Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...

Every dollar spent on forest fuel treatments saves about $3.75 in wildfire damages, according to a new study, led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, of nearly 300 fires in the west...

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

April 19, 2026 - Daniel Swain - Milder temperatures in April than March, with much more precipitation; snowpack, however, remains extremely low What a strange Water Year it has been in 2025-2026! We started the WY with record rainfall during Oct-Dec across much of the central and south coast, including the wettest Oct-Dec period ever observed in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Kern, and #

Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

Join our Everglades Wading Bird project as a postdoc researcher! Explore wading bird breeding, nest success, and drone monitoring opportunities.

The Earth Systems Ecology Lab ( www.hurteaulab.org ) at the University of New Mexico is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with a strong background in ecosystem modeling or spatial data analysis to....

We are happy to release DuckLake v1.0, a production-ready lakehouse format specification. Its reference implementation, the ducklake DuckDB extension, is available as of today in DuckDB v1.5.2.

April 8, 2026 @ 9:00 am-10:00 am - We'll hear from 2 LTER synthesis groups: 1) Life after death: how legacies of dead foundation species influence ecological processes across marine and terrestrial ec...

Triplet tropical cyclones astride the equator could help it develop.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

California margin temperatures modulate regional circulation and extreme summer precipitation in the desert Southwest, Bhattacharya, Tripti, Feng, Ran, Maupin, Christopher R, Coats, Sloan, Brennan, Peter R, Carter, Elizabeth

The Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure-track, Assistant Professor: Forest Genetics and Genomics position.We seek a scholar-edu...

Snowpack decline kindles more severe fire in the western United States, Balik, Jared A, Coop, Jonathan D, Parks, Sean A