climate resilience
Where Urban Areas Meet Nature – The Battle for a Balanced Critical Zone
Cities keep growing like wildfire, swallowing up farmland, forests, and wetlands in their path. Yet nature doesn’t just step aside quietly—it fights back in ...
The Role of Water and Carbon Interactions in Climate Resilience
It’s hard to overstate just how much water and carbon are tied together in the story of our planet’s future. When we talk about ...
The Evolution from Critical Zone Observatories to the Collaborative Network Explained
It started quietly, tucked away in university labs and remote field stations: the idea that to understand Earth’s surface—where rock, soil, water, air, and ...
Building Stronger Groundwater Systems Using Lessons from the Critical Zone
If you’ve ever watched a river dry up in the middle of summer or read about cities fighting over water rights, you know just ...
Why the Closure of the Critical Zone Collaborative Network Could Change Environmental Research
For years, scientists studying the “skin of the Earth”—that fragile layer from bedrock to treetops we call the Critical Zone—have relied on a rare ...
