Throughout Earth's history, drought has been a common crisis in terrestrial ecosystems; in
human societies, it can cause famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse. As the …

Climate change is progressing and is already visible to the naked eye around the world.
Hydrological events associated with climate change, ie floods and droughts, have reached …

A warmer climate increases evaporative demand. However, response to warming depends
on water availability. Existing earth system models represent soil moisture but simplify …

Non-perennial streams are widespread, critical to ecosystems and society, and the subject
of ongoing policy debate. Prior large-scale research on stream intermittency has been …

Nearly, a quarter of the world's population does not have enough food for normal living and
nearly 1 billion people become hungry every year. One of the reasons for undernourishment …

Severe thunderstorms accompanied by tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds cause an
average of 5.4 billion dollars of damage each year across the United States, and 10 billion …

Seasonal patterns of water availability can differ dramatically among ecosystems, with well‐
known consequences for ecosystem structure and functioning. Less appreciated is that …

Rivers are among the most imperiled ecosystems globally, yet we do not have broad‐scale
understanding of their changing ecology because most are rarely sampled. Water color, as …

Groundwater pumping has caused marked aquifer storage declines over the past century. In
addition to threatening the viability of groundwater-dependent economic activities, storage …

Evidence for intensifying rainfall extremes has not translated into “actionable” information
needed by engineers and risk analysts, who are often concerned with very rare events such …