Healthy soil is critical to human health and for achieving sustainable development goals
(SDGs). Although India attained self-sufficiency in food production, realising zero hunger …

The effect of climate change on water resources and sea-level rise is largely determined by
the size of the ice reservoirs around the world and the ice thickness distribution, which …

Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are now recognized to support specific
freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services and represent approximately half of the …

Abstract Earth System Models (ESMs) are essential tools for understanding and predicting
global change, but they cannot explicitly resolve hillslope‐scale terrain structures that …

Monitoring groundwater level (GWL) over long time periods is critical in understanding the
variability of groundwater resources in the present context of global changes. However, in …

Gravitational waves (GWs) were observed for the first time in 2015, one century after
Einstein predicted their existence. There is now growing interest to extend the detection …

Foregrounding the importance of soil and more generally the surface of the Earth–what is
now often called the critical zone (CZ)–remains very difficult as long as the usual planetary …

Sedimentary rocks can release carbon dioxide (CO2) during the weathering of rock organic
carbon and sulfide minerals. This sedimentary carbon could act as a feedback on Earth's …

The development of irrigation is generally considered an efficient way to reduce poverty in
rural areas, although its impact on the inequality between farmers is more debated. In fact …

Incipient groundwater salinization has been identified in many arid and semi-arid regions
where groundwater is increasingly used for irrigation, but the dominant processes at stake in …