Rock weathering, or the mechanical and chemical breakdown of rock over time, creates the landscape on which all terrestrial life is built. Weathering produces sediment, a[...]

Climate change is a pressing issue people in North Carolina are already facing, and recent decades in North Carolina have exhibited a warming trend at the higher end of p[...]

The frequency and intensity at which fog occurs impacts the entire transportation infrastructure of the United States: Maritime shipping, aviation, railroads, and highway[...]

Large-scale exfoliation cracks and associated domes can strongly influence regional landscape evolution, hydrology and hazards, but their formation mechanism(s) and long-[...]

As temperatures continue to increase all over the world, extreme weather events and the extreme observations associated with them are becoming more prevalent. This should[...]

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are one of the pollutants that impact indoor air quality, leading to many adverse health effects such as Asthma, and other breathing iss[...]

Greenhouse gases’ continuously increasing emissions have a variety of implications for the future of our climate patterns. This includes potential changes in the northern[...]

Duke Energy customers frequently experience electrical power outages caused by thunderstorms that produce strong surface winds and subsequently damage power distribution [...]

The role of insolation as an instigator for crack initiation in rock is still a continuously perplexing topic. An immense amount of data has been collected on the influen[...]

The temperatures a country, state, or any particular area experience over many decadestend towards a bell curve probability distribution, such that the mean value is the [...]