For the first time in recorded history the system that moves water around the planet is off balance, according to a landmark new report. Water moves around the world in "atmospheric rivers" as part of ...

As the planet continues to warm, this cycle is expected to be increasingly stretched, warped and broken. The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving ...

I TRAVEL a lot for work, and everywhere I go people talk about rain. I was in Uganda last November and heard grumbles that the rainy season had failed to arrive. In Albania in March, I read about ...

Cracked mud and salt on the valley floor in Death Valley National Park in California can become a reflective pool after rains. In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of ...

Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University In 2022, a third La Niña year brought much rain to Australia and Southeast Asia and dry ...

The global water cycle is becoming increasingly erratic and extreme, exposing people to both deluge and drought with cascading impacts on economies and societies, the World Meteorological Organization ...

Wildfires, deforestation and global warming could permanently destroy the water cycle that sustains parts of the Amazon rainforest if action is not taken in the coming decades, according to a study ...