Persistent overuse of water supplies from the Colorado River during recent decades has
substantially depleted large storage reservoirs and triggered mandatory cutbacks in water …

Irrigated agriculture dominates freshwater consumption globally, but crop production and
farm revenues suffer when water supplies are insufficient to meet irrigation needs. In the …

Growing demands for temporally specific information on land surface change are fueling a
new generation of maps and statistics that can contribute to understanding geographic and …

Long term, global records of urban extent can help evaluate environmental impacts of
anthropogenic activities. Remotely sensed observations can provide insights into historical …

The ability to effectively manage water resources to meet present and future human and
environmental needs is essential. Such an ability necessitates a comprehensive …

Levees constrain roaring floodwater but are blamed for reducing people's perception of
flood risks and promoting floodplain human settlements unprepared for high-consequence …

Over the past century, agricultural land use in the United States has seen drastic shifts to
support increasing demand for food and commodities; in many regions, this has resulted in …

Understanding spatio-temporal changes in soil thickness and their natural and
anthropogenic driving factors are essential for earth system modeling and natural resource …

The growing human enterprise has sparked greater interest in identifying ecological
thresholds in land use conversion beyond which populations or communities demonstrate …

The land of the conterminous United States (CONUS) has been transformed dramatically by
humans over the last four centuries through land clearing, agricultural expansion and …