About 3.6 billion people face inadequate access to water one month per year. Climate change and human activity are causing the world's hydrological cycle to spin out of balance, according to a new ...

An ecosystem is normally defined as a complex of all living (plants, animals, microorganisms) and non-living (soil, climate) components interacting as a functional unit in a certain area. Each ...

Climate change is throwing the world's hydrologic cycle out of whack and promising big water problems in the coming years, climate scientist Peter Gleick told "The Climate Crisis Podcast." "We're ...

The Missionary Ridge Fire in 2002 and the Gold King Mine spill in 2015 brought home just how painful disruptions in the water cycle from drought to human-made hazards can be. Cathy Metz, director of ...

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 ...

The world watched in July 2021 as extreme rainfall became floods that washed away centuries-old homes in Europe, triggered landslides in Asia and inundated subways in China. More than 900 people died ...

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 ...

A recently published paper by NASA scientists has found unprecedented changes in the global water cycle due to human intervention. These shifts range from declining groundwater levels to extreme ...

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 ...