Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting consequences that are hard to picture. Researchers enlisted water ...

The global water cycle is central to the Earth’s climate system. It transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries and is a pervasive aspect of the physical, biological, and chemical processes and ...

By harnessing recent advances in science, monitoring technologies and data availability, we can finally start treating water ...

In 2006, the National Science Foundation (NSF) requested that the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Water Science and Technology Board review and assess the adequacy of the conceptual design and ...

Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives, according ...

Beyond the rainforests, scientists are zeroing in on changes occurring to a natural water cycle that could forever alter the Amazon. The Amazon has always gone through periods of drought or abnormally ...

An Irish teenager's innovative project made invisible microplastic pollution visible. Fionn Ferreira used magnetic liquids to ...

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The global water cycle is our planet’s life-support system. It is a powerful environmental pump, with forests transpiring ...