The Climate Crisis: Are Plants Contributing to Global Warming? As the world grapples with escalating climate change, emerging research suggests a troubling trend: plants, which are often seen as essential allies in combating global warming, might be inadvertently contributing to it. This phenomenon occurs when rising temperatures lead plants to lose an increased amount of water, thereby diminishing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.

Mars’ water disappeared somewhere, but scientists have been disagreeing for years about where exactly it went. Data from rovers like Perseverance and Curiosity, along with orbiting satellites such as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ExoMars have shown that Mars used to be a wet world with an active hydrodynamic cycle. Obviously it isn’t anymore, but where did all the water go? A new paper that collects data from at least six different instruments on three different spacecraft provides some additional insight into that question - by showing that dust storms push water into the Red Planet’s atmosphere, where it is actively destroyed, all year round.

As federal officials negotiate new rules for sharing the Colorado River's shrinking water supply, scientists are expanding efforts to better measure one of the basin's biggest sources of water loss: e...

This brief compares the extra evaporation caused by four lower Snake River dams in Washington state, US, with predicted evaporation of an undisturbed river.