Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. To visit it and marvel at the ...

Droughts in California can cause the cost of surface water to more than triple, according to a recent economic study. Groundwater prices remain more stable than surface water prices during both wet ...

California often swings between climate extremes—from powerful storms to punishing droughts. As climate change drives more intense and frequent dry and wet cycles, pressure on California's water ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing extreme temperature swings on the exoplanet WASP-18b.

The aerial view looks west toward the the Patterson Reservoir and Patterson Pass-Alameda County Water Plant, located beside the South Bay Aqueduct, part of the California State Water Project in ...

It's the first use of a new technique called 3D eclipse mapping. Astronomers have produced the first-ever three-dimensional map of a planet outside our solar system — WASP-18b — marking a major leap ...

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In a rare move, all surface water rights holders in the Yakima River Basin will see their water curtailed due to lack of available water. The Washington Department of Ecology is ordering a halt to ...

In its most basic form, surface tension is the tendency of liquids to bead up rather than spread out because they are more attracted to themselves (cohesion) than they are attracted to other things, ...