Research co-led by the University of Maryland reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO2-rich climate can ...

Climate change and human activities are causing significant disruptions to Earth's natural systems, including the global ...

Around three-quarters of the Earth is covered in water. Water is a valuable natural resource. It can be used to water crops and grow food, as drinking water, for washing and even for transporting ...

In a recently published paper to PNAS, scientists described how the global freshwater cycle has been altered due to climate ...

NASA scientists have uncovered significant human-driven changes in the global water cycle over the past two decades.

A new study led by a scientist in the Montana State University College of Agriculture provides the first comprehensive global estimates of water stored in plants and the time it takes for that water ...

New research reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO2-rich climate can dramatically alter how grasslands use and move water. The study provides the first experimental demonstration of ...

Water does all this without leaving Earth. Its quantity is virtually constant. The main processes involved in this cycle are evaporation, plant transpiration, condensation, precipitation (rain and ...