Even if you’ve been living under a rock, you have experienced the Water Cycle in action. Rain falling from the sky, water seeping into the ground, a flowing river, plant roos sucking up moisture; each ...

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 ...

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 ...

James Renwick receives funding from the NZ Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. He is a Commissioner at the NZ Climate Change Commission and is a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC 6th ...

The water on our planet flows along a path that links the land, ocean, atmosphere and living things Madison Goldberg Although the atmosphere contains only a tiny fraction of all Earth’s water, it’s a ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Hidden inside the Earth ...

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 was sitting in a meeting yesterday watching extremely high rainfall rates from an unnamed tropical system passing through Georgia. As the rain hit the parking lot, some of it rushed to drains while ...

Powerful storm systems triggered flash flooding across the U.S. in late July, inundating St. Louis neighborhoods with record rainfall and setting off mudslides in eastern Kentucky, where at least 16 ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a $1.2 billion satellite early Friday to monitor Earth's oceans, rivers and lakes with a high-power radar and other sensitive instruments to better assess the ...

Did you know that the total amount of water on Earth is fixed? The amount of water is neither gained nor lost between the Earth and its atmosphere. Water is a compound of two elements, hydrogen and ...

A research team has used changing patterns of salt in the ocean to estimate that between 1970 and 2014, at least two times more freshwater shifted from the equator to the poles than our climate models ...