BYU's new hydrologic cycle, representing major water pools in blue text, natural water fluxes in black text and human-impacted fluxes in orange. Illustration by Eliza Anderson. The United States ...

Water is a defining characteristic of life. Where there is water, there is life, and without water life as we know it does not exist. Nothing is more fundamental to human wellbeing than access to ...

Fresh water cycles from ocean to air to clouds to rivers and back to the oceans. This constant shuttling can give us the illusion of certainty. Fresh water will always come from the tap. Won’t it?

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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 ...

The global water cycle is off balance for the "first time in human history." Researchers have warned that this lack of balance could lead to a massive water disaster, which could terrorize the ...

Water is constantly in motion, changing form from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Its power to transform enables water to erode rocks and mountains, corrode metal, and extract nutrients from ...

Record temperatures last year pushed the global water cycle to “new climatic extremes,” according to the Global Water Monitor 2024 report. The document, produced by an international consortium led by ...

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 ...