LANZHOU, April 30 (Xinhua) -- A new study by Chinese scientists has uncovered that dust storms are the "hidden drivers" of extreme rainfall and precipitation shifts on a global scale, overturning the ...

Stable isotope analysis has become an indispensable tool in deciphering the complexities of the water cycle and climate variability. By measuring the ratios of stable isotopes such as δ18O and δ2H in ...

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon’s rainfall cycle over the last 40 years: wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier. Oxygen isotope ...

BATON ROUGE – Brent Christner, LSU professor of biological sciences, in partnership with colleagues in Montana and France, recently found evidence that rain-making bacteria are widely distributed in ...

Tiny organisms on the ground—bacteria and fungi—have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and pull down the rain, according to a recent study. To understand how a microbe ...

High aerosol concentrations from pollution and biomass burning alter atmospheric stability, cooling land more than ocean. This enhances low-level convergence at sea, drawing moisture offshore, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Heavy downpours are becoming more intense in the United States as climate change supercharges the water cycle, leading to an increase in rainfall rates. Rainfall rates are a ...

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 years: wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier. Oxygen isotope ...

Tiny airborne particles known as aerosols, from biomass burning, urban pollution, and industrial emissions, can dramatically alter rainfall, cloud formation, and atmospheric stability. A new study led ...

Extreme river flood levels reach several meters depth, as indicated by the darker shade on the bark of this tree from seasonally flooded forests in the Amazon region. (Bruno B L Cintra, University of ...