Across the planet, the same invisible system that fills our taps is now driving some of the most destructive disasters on ...

The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble. Climate change has disrupted that cycle’s delicate balance, upsetting how water ...

In the past few days, hundreds of bushfires have ignited in southeast Australia during an extreme heat wave. And communities ...

Understanding how water moves through the Earth system is fundamental to predicting climate impacts and ensuring sustainable ...

2024 was another year of record-breaking temperatures, driving the global water cycle to new climate extremes and contributing to ferocious floods and crippling droughts, a new report led by The ...

Prolonged droughts, wildfires and water shortages. Torrential downpours that overwhelm dams and cause catastrophic flooding. Around the globe, rising temperatures stoked by climate change are ...

America’s AI boom is driving a surge in data center construction—along with rising water demand. Why water is becoming the ...

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 ...

A new study provides the first comprehensive global estimates of the amount of water stored in Earth's plants and the amount of time it takes for that water to flow through them. The information is a ...

While weather extremes such as flooding and wildfires are frequently identified as visible consequences of climate change, ...